To know more about the tulip mania I was able to interview historian Henk Looijesteijn specialist on the Golden age and on the tulip mania. Part two of three.
Today the continuation of the interview with historian Henk Looijesteijn, we are in the golden century and start of with the symbolical and religious meaning of the tulip. Followed by the names of the tulips in the tulip mania, specifying one special tulip the Semper Augustus, and a slowly growing trade in tulips and growing numbers of bulb growers. Historians still don’t know or debate about what made the tulip mania happen. We end at the factors which contributed to the craze as things start to heat up.