Starting with the analysis of the diary kept by Constantijn Huygens Jr in the second half of the 17th century, this book sketches a panoramic view of life among Dutch regents and at the court of Willi
This book explores the connections between the changes in the conventional wisdom about child-rearing and the new ways that autobiographers and diarists in Holland began to write about childhood betwe
A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s provides the basis for a panoramic view of the Age of Enlightenment and democratic revolution in Europe, highlighting the emergence of new ideas on education, nature
A comprehensive inventory of Dutch egodocuments was begun in the 1980s, establishing an exhaustive chronological list of these "texts in which authors speak about themselves" (from the introduction).
