Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll

Title: 
Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll
Publisher: 
Amsterdam University Press (2012)
Sex and Drugs Before Rock ’n’ Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms.

Through the Keyhole

Title: 
Through the Keyhole. Dutch Child-rearing practices in the 17th and 18th Century
Publisher: 
Verloren Publishers (1998)
Foreigners in the United Provinces have always complained that Dutch parents are too indulgent for their children. Dutch schoolmasters also confirmed this image. But was the Republic of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a children's paradise in Early Modern Europe?

Losbandige jeugd [Wayward Youths]

Title: 
Losbandige Jeugd (in Dutch)
Publisher: 
Verloren Publishers (2004)
Samen met Leendert Groenendijk redigeert Benjamin Roberts een bundel over de bezorgdheid en geklaag over 'de jeugd van tegenwoordig' dat geen eigentijds verschijnsel is. Al veel eerder, tijdens de late Middeleeuwen en de Vroegmoderne Tijd, waren er opvoeders die zich bezorgd afvroegen, hoe de jeugd op het pad der deugd moest worden gehouden.