The humorous side of Dutch culture of the 17th century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humorless Calvinist Dutch. Based on a manuscript containing some 2000 jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed and analyzed. Most jokes are crude and obscene, and they throw a new light on attitudes towards sexuality, religion, and other aspects of life.
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"...he has recovered for the Dutch and for students of Dutch history a vital, missing piece of culture." --Seventeenth-Century News
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Rudolf M. Dekker is Reader, Erasmus University.
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The Dutch are considered a humourless people par excellence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
printed jestbooks, ethnic humour, stage farces, various jokes, etiquette manuals, following joke, comic literature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Hague, Constantijn Huygens, Dutch Republic, Jan Steen, Dutch East Indies, Jan Zoet, Court of Holland, Jan Tamboer, Southern Netherlands, Clément Marot, States General, Golden Age, Jan Spronssen, Middle Ages, Daniel Heinsius, House of Orange, Shrove Tuesday, Adriaen van de Venne, Della Casa, Frans de Geck, Hugo de Groot, Jacob Cats, Jacob Westerbaen, The Satirical Tapeworm Mirror, Aernout Ilooft New!
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The Dutch are considered a humourless people par excellence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
printed jestbooks, ethnic humour, stage farces, various jokes, etiquette manuals, following joke, comic literature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Hague, Constantijn Huygens, Dutch Republic, Jan Steen, Dutch East Indies, Jan Zoet, Court of Holland, Jan Tamboer, Southern Netherlands, Clément Marot, States General, Golden Age, Jan Spronssen, Middle Ages, Daniel Heinsius, House of Orange, Shrove Tuesday, Adriaen van de Venne, Della Casa, Frans de Geck, Hugo de Groot, Jacob Cats, Jacob Westerbaen, The Satirical Tapeworm Mirror, Aernout Ilooft New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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