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Daily life in Rembrandt's Holland

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"Among the myriad topics covered are homes, gardens, clothing, food, religion, childrearing, education, medicine, sports and games, holidays and celebrations, painters, musicians, writers, the theater, publishing, aristocrats, workers, peasants, the merchant fleet, the armed forces, trading and colonizing companies, fisheries, and the famous Holland dikes"--Back cover.

Contents

I The Background of Daily Life 1 -- II The Dutch Interior 37 -- III The Course of Life 79 -- IV Recreations 162 -- V Arts and Letters 193 -- VI Dutch Society 224 -- VII Holland at Work 266.

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    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994

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    • 9780804722001
    • 0804722013
    • 9780804722018
    • 0804722005

Annotations / title notes

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    • "First published in 1959 in France by Librairie Hachette under the title La vie quotidienne en Hollande au temps de Rembrandt." -- Page [iv].
    • Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.

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