Author: Jan Janszoon Starter
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Friesche Lust-hof, Bellant Met Verscheyden Stichtelijcke Minne-liedekens, ...
Author: Jan Janszoon Starter
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Pages : 276
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Tulipmania
Author: Anne Goldgar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
Englands Parnassus
Author: John Payne Collier
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Catalogue of the Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral
Author: Clive Hurst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521234808
Category : Cathedral libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521234808
Category : Cathedral libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Quaerendo
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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A quarterly journal from the low countries devoted to manuscripts and printed books.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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A quarterly journal from the low countries devoted to manuscripts and printed books.
Lantern
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Singing the News of Death
Author: Una McIlvenna
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197551858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death. Ballads were frequently written in the first-person voice, and often purported to be the last words, confession or 'dying speech' of the condemned criminal, yet were ironically on sale the day of the execution itself. Musical notation was generally not required as ballads were set to well-known tunes. Execution ballads were therefore a medium accessible to all, regardless of literacy, social class, age, gender or location. A genre that retained extraordinary continuities in form and content across time, space, and language, the execution ballad grew in popularity in the nineteenth century, and only began to fade as executions themselves were removed from the public eye. With an accompanying database of recordings, Singing the News of Death brings these centuries-old songs of death back to life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197551858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death. Ballads were frequently written in the first-person voice, and often purported to be the last words, confession or 'dying speech' of the condemned criminal, yet were ironically on sale the day of the execution itself. Musical notation was generally not required as ballads were set to well-known tunes. Execution ballads were therefore a medium accessible to all, regardless of literacy, social class, age, gender or location. A genre that retained extraordinary continuities in form and content across time, space, and language, the execution ballad grew in popularity in the nineteenth century, and only began to fade as executions themselves were removed from the public eye. With an accompanying database of recordings, Singing the News of Death brings these centuries-old songs of death back to life.
Oud-Holland
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Languages : nl
Pages : 584
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Languages : nl
Pages : 584
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Oud Holland
Author: Nicolaas de Roever
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Category : Art
Languages : nl
Pages : 450
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Category : Art
Languages : nl
Pages : 450
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Vox regis of de stemme des conincks van Enghelant: sijnde als een apologij van een seecker tractaet ghenaemt Vox populi, of gelijck in Nederduytsch overgeset is Conseio of Spaanschen Raedt
Author: Thomas Scott
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Languages : nl
Pages : 110
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Languages : nl
Pages : 110
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