Marijke Spies (2013) was professor emeritus in pre-1770 Dutch literature at the Free University of Amsterdam. 1650: Bevochten Eendracht was the first volume of a major interdisciplinary research project on Dutch culture in its European context. In 2004 Spies published the novel An Innocent Family.
(SDU Uitgevers, 1999, 704 pagina's)
This ambitious study presents the latest views on society during the famous Dutch Golden Age. No other general work treats the most important themes of Dutch culture so systematically. The book is more informative, more soundly researched and less speculative than Simon Schama’s The Embarrassment of Riches (1987). It is also an outstanding complement to Jonathan Israel’s great work, The Dutch Republic (1995), with its predominantly economic and political approach.
(Querido, 2004, 362 pagina's)
Deze familiekroniek, beginnend in 1922, toont aan de hand van drie generaties hoe ieder mens, ook ongewild, zijn bijdrage levert aan het lot van de medemens.
