Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll: Youth Culture and by Benjamin B. Roberts

By Benjamin B. Roberts

Intercourse and medicine prior to the Rock ’n’ Roll is an engaging quantity that offers an enticing evaluate of what it was once wish to be younger and male within the Dutch Golden Age. right here, recognized cohorts of Rembrandt are tested for the ways that they expressed themselves via defying conservative values and norms. This examine finds how those younger males rebelled, breaking from prior generations: letting their hair develop lengthy, donning colourful garments, consuming excessively, tough urban guards, being promiscuous, smoking, and making a song lewd songs.

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11 On the three new canals there was room to build urban palaces reflecting their acquired patrician-like lifestyle. The families of the affluent elite had also witnessed and participated in Amsterdam’s transition from a staple market into a hub of international trade and commerce. The immigrants contributed to the volume of trade and the re-organization of trade activities. For the first time in history, large trade companies such as the Dutch East India Company (1602) and Dutch West India Company (1622) were established with shareholders.

In 1625 Pieter Claass Elant married Margarieta Boulen at the age of 23. Besides being cohorts in marrying, these young men lived relatively close to each other. Most of them were concentrated on the prestigious Singel canal or Koningsgracht (King’s canal) as it was 38 the generation of the 1620s and 1630s known in the early seventeenth century. 28 Guilliaem van den Broeck, who was 27 years old, probably attended the wedding together with his 25-year-old wife, Marritje Laurens. 29 Sometime after the Spanish siege of Antwerp in 1585, non-Catholic merchants including Calvinists, Lutherans, and Mennonites were given four years to finalize their business affairs and leave the city.

Indeed, beard growth was consistently associated with the “masculine” social roles of soldier and father’. 10 46 appearance and clothing in the 1620s and 1630s Illustration 3 ‘A bushy-haired Rembrandt with no facial hair’ in: Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait as a Young Man (c. 1628-1629) 47 sex and drugs before rock ’n’ roll Most likely, Huygens did not accept the beardless Rembrandt as a fully fledged man. However, according to early modern standards, we can surmise that Rembrandt was normal regarding physical maturity.

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