Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland

by Arie Theodorus van Deursen

st comprehensive study yet published of the plain lives of a 'golden age'.f plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then sh

Genres: History

420 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 1991

About the author

Vaak ook publicerend als A.Th. van Deursen

Arie van Deursen was een Nederlandse hoogleraar nieuwe geschiedenis aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Zijn specialisme was het Nederland van de zestiende en van de zeventiende eeuw. Daarnaast wordt hij beschouwd als dé autoriteit op het gebied van de godsdienstige verhoudingen in die periode. Van Deursen was een van de meest vooraanstaande en productieve historici van Nederland.

Reviews

[Joshua Horn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got some helpful information from this book, but not as much as I had hoped. I wish the author had spent less than on Marxist (or Marxist influenced) analysis of society, and more on conveying the facts and illustrative stories of life at the time (like Cressy did for England in Birth, Marriage & Death)