The Many Meanings of Freedom of Conscience in Early Modern Europe: Ben Kaplan

Please join us in welcoming Professor Kaplan at our inaugural Outside Speaker Seminar.

Ben Kaplan is a specialist in the history of relations between religious groups in early modern Europe.  He received his BA from Yale University (1981) and his PhD from Harvard (1989).  He has taught at Brandeis University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Amsterdam, and currently holds the Chair in Dutch History at University College London.  He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other bodies.  Among his books are Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (2007) and Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment (2014).