Benjamin Jacob Kaplan (born 31 January 1960) is a historian and professor of Dutch history at

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and the

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."A Revisionist Historian Looks at Religious Toleration,"
Peter Steinfels, Nov. 24, 2007, New York Times. He taught at

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. He is a 2011

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. According to ''

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'', in his 2007 book ''Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe,'' Kaplan "maintains that religious toleration declined from around 1550 to 1750," and that Europeans responded by devising "intricate boundaries allowing them to live more or less peaceably with neighbors whose rival beliefs were anathema." He received his PhD from

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Books

* *''Calvinists and Libertines: confession and community in Utrecht, 1578-1620'', Clarendon Press, 1995, * *Benjamin J. Kaplan, Bob Moore, Henk Van Nierop, Judith Pollmann, (eds.) ''Catholic Communities in Protestant States: Britain and the Netherlands C.1570-1720'', Manchester University Press, 2009,

References

1960 births Living people Historians of Europe University of Iowa faculty Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Professors of Dutch History at University College London Historians of the Netherlands Harvard University alumni {{US-historian-stub