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work_kk5rwxoa7rbjpfcla4yjs4m62a	Maarten Prak	A.T. van Deursen. Plain Lives in a Golden Age. Popular culture, religion and society in seventeenth-century Holland. Transl. by Maarten Ultee. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 1991. ix, 408 pp. Ill. £50.00. (Paper: £15.95.)	1993	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1815	121	63	Plain Lives in a Golden Age. Popular culture, religion and society in seventeenth-century Holland. Plain Lives in a Golden Age. Popular culture, religion and society in seventeenth-century Holland. daily lives of ordinary people in Holland during the Golden Age. Van Deursen, Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. Schama's book, though very popular with the general public, received a less than Many Dutch historians, not least van Deursen, thought Schama had caricatured his subject. According to van Deursen, Schama's book revealed an essentially twentieth-century conception imposed upon seventeenth-century sources. Van Deursen's book is pioneering because he was one of the first modern historians in the Netherlands working in this field. Van Deursen's work is also pioneering because, so far, little research had been Although van Deursen's book may at first glance look like a synthesis, it is popular culture in the early modern period; both authors, who published their	./cache/work_kk5rwxoa7rbjpfcla4yjs4m62a.pdf	./txt/work_kk5rwxoa7rbjpfcla4yjs4m62a.txt