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Sex and Drugs Before Rock 'n' Roll
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Sex and Drugs Before Rock 'n' Roll

Sex and Drugs Before the Rock ā€™nā€™ Rollis a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms. This study reveals how these young men rebelled, breaking from previous generations: letting their hair grow long, wearing colorful clothing, drinking excessively, challenging city guards, being promiscuous, smoking, and singing lewd songs. Cogently argued, this study paints a compelling portrait of the youth culture of the Dutch Golden Age, at a time when the rising popularity of print made dissemination of new cultural ideas possible, while rising incomes and liberal attitudes created a generation of men behaving badly.

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt

  • Categories: Art

Inleidend overzicht, met name aan de hand van thema's, van de Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis van de 17e eeuw.

Literacy in Everyday Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Literacy in Everyday Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a subject more difficult to research. As has been pointed out before, egodocuments can be valuable sources in this case. Following this lead, "Literacy in Everyday Life" focuses upon four early modern Dutch diaries in which readers document their daily life and in which they recount their reading. In the analysis, other ways in which these four readers communicated are also addressed, especially speech and writing. This book therefore provides an insight into the possible uses of literacy and the interaction between the printed, written and spoken word in the early modern Dutch Republic.

Dawn of the Golden Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 732

Dawn of the Golden Age

  • Categories: Art

Designed as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 1994, this offers a survey of the paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and applied art produced 1580-1620. The book contains five essays followed by a catalogue which reproduces work from the era along with data on the artists.

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt

  • Categories: Art

Inleidend overzicht, met name aan de hand van thema's, van de Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis van de 17e eeuw.

The roots of nationalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

The roots of nationalism

This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 495

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-10-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.

Religious Drama and the Humanist Tradition: Christian Theater in Germany and in the Netherlands 1500-1680
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252
Modelling the Individual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Modelling the Individual

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

One of the most noticeable features of the Renaissance is what Jacob Burckhardt called the rise of the individual - in politics and religion, in its social life and in the arts, and in the mentality of Renaissance man, with his inclination to explore, to invent and to make new discoveries. Yet this characteristic is also very puzzling to modern people, who see that although the categories of art which depict particular people increased to a spectacular degree in a period when biography and portrait painting were among the most popular genres, and autobiography began to emerge as a genre in itself and painters began to produce self-portraits, an interest individuals is not necessarily the sam...