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 174
... less the same time to a breakfast consisting of more or less the same ingredients - bread , butter , cheese , fish , pasties , beer and / or buttermilk and whey - suggests a community in which the bonds of shared habit tied together ...
... less the same time to a breakfast consisting of more or less the same ingredients - bread , butter , cheese , fish , pasties , beer and / or buttermilk and whey - suggests a community in which the bonds of shared habit tied together ...
Pagina 286
... less peculiar , and so less threatening , the Republic gradually came to feel itself less threatened . Dutch statesmen of the early eighteenth century like Heinsius and van Slingelandt sought means of protecting Dutch integrity that would ...
... less peculiar , and so less threatening , the Republic gradually came to feel itself less threatened . Dutch statesmen of the early eighteenth century like Heinsius and van Slingelandt sought means of protecting Dutch integrity that would ...
Pagina 340
... less question of the church lending itself to anything that could be construed as subverting a company that had been ... less shady than the Marrano Jews perhaps , less secretive than the Mennonites , but as businessmen , fundamentally ...
... less question of the church lending itself to anything that could be construed as subverting a company that had been ... less shady than the Marrano Jews perhaps , less secretive than the Mennonites , but as businessmen , fundamentally ...
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