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The seventeenth century in Dutch history is traditionally known as the Golden Age. It is a romantic and slightly nostalgic term, but not an inappropriate one, for the seventeenth century was undoubtedly a period of unprecedented wealth and prosperity, economically as well as culturally. Yet the term Golden Age needs some qualification. In the first place, it applies only to the period in the northern part of the Low Countries, to what is known as the Netherlands. For the southern provinces the century was anything but golden.
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Meijer, R.P. (1978). The Golden Age. In: Literature of the Low Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9734-9_5
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