![]() ![]() The phrase ‘Golden Age’ became fashionable in the nineteenth century, when history was being framed in a nationalist context that served to unite the nation. I am happy about this, since the term is not fit for purpose. However, my museum, the Amsterdam Museum, has decided to stop using it. ![]() We still use the term without much thought. If I ask that same question today, over a hundred years later, I can still proceed on the assumption that most of my readers will immediately understand what I mean when I refer to the Dutch ‘Golden Age’. Such were the opening words of Pieter Lodewijk Muller (1842–1904) in the Preface to his monumental book on the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, Onze Gouden Eeuw – ‘Our Golden Age’ – in 1897. ‘Our Golden Age: need I tell anyone what I mean by this? Is there a single cultivated Dutchman who does not know that those words can only apply to the period of our history that lies between the departure of Leicester in 1587 and the Peace of Utrecht in 1713?’ Curator Tom van der Molen of the Amsterdam Museum is pleased with his museum’s decision and has written an essay about his own relationship to the term “Golden Age.” He explains why he now no longer uses the term as a standard way of referring to the seventeenth century. Among CODART members too, it is fair to assume that opinions will be divided. ![]() The decision prompted a tidal wave of reactions, some of them positive and some extremely negative. (16) In 1973 a plan for unity entitled Towards a United Church was produced.On 12 September 2019, the Amsterdam Museum announced that it would no longer be using the term ‘Golden Age’ as a synonym for the seventeenth century because the term does not give an accurate representation of that century and creates a barrier impeding efforts to tell the history of that era in ways that are relevant to the entire breadth of the population of Amsterdam and the Netherlands at large. (15) We know a number of things successively when taken one at a time, which we know all at once if we know them in a unity : thus we can know the parts in the whole, or see different things in a mirror. (14) All these proofs use complex numbers and roots of unity, as does the author's. (13) Notwithstanding this jarring absence of any thematic unity, each piece itself is worth a read. (12) Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity. (10) ways of preserving family unity (11) There are movies to see for their artistic unity, visual brilliance, or dramatic power. (8) they speak of the three parts as a unity (9) If you challenge their conception of society and politics, then they say you are a threat to national unity or to peace and order and stability. (7) As suggested above by Carr, however, there is not a clear, unambiguous macrostructure for the book and this makes for a complex unity. (6) In fact, he even may have gained speed on rivals, thanks to specific properties of the two cube roots of unity that are complex numbers. (5) It is the greatest threat to communal harmony, democracy, secularism, peace, progress, unity and integrity of our motherland. (4) Most European leaders realize that a policy of opposing the United States makes European unity impossible. (3) This notion of a complex unity of the book leads us to a second thesis. (2) It is highly unlikely that they would allow any internal or external factor to trifle with their unity or a united platform to promote and preserve their interests. (1) All three voices joined together in sudden unity. ![]()
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