A Case for Learning to Read Seventeenth-Century Dutch
If you really want to understand how the Dutch lived in the Golden Age, then you should learn to read 17th century Dutch.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
If you really want to understand how the Dutch lived in the Golden Age, then you should learn to read 17th century Dutch.
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