Palace of Commerce
Amsterdam's City Hall in the Seventeenth Century
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Palace of Commerce invites you to discover the hidden past of Amsterdam’s Royal Palace. It reveals this magnificent buildings’ origin as Amsterdam’s City Hall in the seventeenth century, the ‘Dutch Golden Age’. Contemporaries praised the building for its beauty. Its size and splendour reflect the city’s prime position in international trade across the globe, as well as the dignity of its urban regents and administrative officials.
Those who enter the Royal Palace today can hardly imagine that this building was once a bustling collection of offices and courtrooms. It even included a prison! What originally happened in its now so serene marble halls? Who could be found in its rooms full of paintings and sculpture on a daily basis, when the building’s corridors were still swarming with citizens and businessmen from all corners of the world? Using the art and architecture visible today as our point of departure, the authors shed light on the history of early modern Amsterdam through the eyes of those who ruled and dispensed justice.
The regents and administrative officials who frequented the floors of Amsterdam’s global centre of commerce, finance, law, and governance are introduced in a compelling selection of short and richly illustrated stories.
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amsterdam geschiedenis architectuur gouden eeuw bestuur handel regenten stadsgeschiedenis 17e eeuw rechtspraak burgemeesters stadsbestuur internationale handel administratie schepenen stedelijke ontwikkeling koninklijk paleis weeskamer kunst cultuur rechtbank verzekering schatkist secretarie gevangenis migratie
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Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
introduction 9
Window: Amsterdam’s 750th Birthday? 15
burgomasters 17
Window: Dr. Nicolaes Tulp 27
sheriff and aldermen 28
Window: Prison and Punishment 35
the city council 37
Window: Messengers and Couriers 42
the secretaries’ office 43
Window: Schepenkennissen 50
the treasury 54
Window: Centre of Global Commerce and Shipping 59
the chamber of insurance and average 62
Window: City of Migrants 68
the chamber of insolvent and abandoned estates 71
Window: Odysseus and Nausicaa 78
the orphan chamber 80
Window: Titus van Rijn 87
conclusion 88
Glossary 92
Bibliography 95
Index 101
About the Authors 103
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