The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeCollins, 1987 - 698 pagina's This text explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. |
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Pagina 181
... drinking vessels which appear in the earliest iconic representations of the militia were symbols of that communal fraternity which had engaged to defend the town against the encroachments of feudalism and absolutism . In the sixteenth ...
... drinking vessels which appear in the earliest iconic representations of the militia were symbols of that communal fraternity which had engaged to defend the town against the encroachments of feudalism and absolutism . In the sixteenth ...
Pagina 190
... drinking went back at least to the early sixteenth century , when Lodovico Giucciardini noted it as " abnormal . " Like many later commentators he attributed it to the need to ward off the chilly vapors that rose from the bogs and ...
... drinking went back at least to the early sixteenth century , when Lodovico Giucciardini noted it as " abnormal . " Like many later commentators he attributed it to the need to ward off the chilly vapors that rose from the bogs and ...
Pagina 203
... drinking against the prohibitionism of the church when it could be represented as part of the legitimate customs of the Fatherland - commemorative or " immemorial . " For all the overkill of its dramatic bravura , Rembrandt's Claudius ...
... drinking against the prohibitionism of the church when it could be represented as part of the legitimate customs of the Fatherland - commemorative or " immemorial . " For all the overkill of its dramatic bravura , Rembrandt's Claudius ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the ... Simon Schama Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1988 |
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