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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll: Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age (Amsterdam University Press - Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)
Language: English
Pages: 318
ISBN: 9089644024
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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is given to her as a covering’. Moreover, it turned men into submissive beings just like women, and essentially made men into whores.25 According to the Dutch historian John Exalto, many of the orthodox ministers in the early seventeenth century believed that the clergy fulfilled an important position as role models in society, and specifically young ministers. Their short-cropped hair and full beards had become intertwined with the creditability of their profession. Anything different was
wrote a 484-page tome entitled Brief van Claudius Salmasius aen Andr. Colvium, belangende het 52 appearance and clothing in the 1620s and 1630s langh hair der mannen en de lokken der vrouwen [Letter from Claudius Salmasius to Andreas Colvium about Long Hair for Men and Locks for Women]. It was originally written in Latin and translated later that year into Dutch. Salmasius drew his arguments from history but with another perspective. He pleaded that throughout history man had alternated
a scholarship were prohibited from drinking in certain places, and all students were forbidden to consume alcohol on the university’s game fields.62 In other university towns, even ones where students were not exempt from tariffs on beer and wine such as the University of Groningen, 87 sex and drugs before rock ’n’ roll binge drinking was a problem among students. In 1616, just two years after the university was founded, authorities recorded incidents of drunkenness among students. Johannes
of removing cobblestones from the main market square and fareways. Pedestrians complained about literally breaking their necks at night, and how youngsters kicked and molested them in doorways and windows. The pack of young men went into a wild frenzy when they reached the market square and graveyards, where they pulled up stones and tossed them through windows. Besides the destruction of property, numerous fights broke out between groups of boys who gathered on streets or at the city’s bulwarks
In cities with an anatomical theater, not a seat was left empty during the anatomy lessons. Large audiences gathered especially in the winter when the cold temperature reduced the stench from the decaying corpses. The lessons attracted a wide variety of spectators, ranging from apprentices of the surgical guild to midwives, and even artists who marveled at the detailed anatomy of the human body from inside and out.13 The lessons held in Amsterdam’s former city gate, De Waag, which was used as an
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