Benjamin J Kaplan

Biographic Data

ID3676626
NAMEBenjamin J Kaplan
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin J
FAMILY NAMEKaplan
SIGNATUREKAPLAN B J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0001-8649-8329
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2025

  • Amanda C. Pipkin, Dissenting Daughters. Reformed Women in the Dutch Republic, 1572-1725

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLETSEG/ Low Countries Journal of…2024

    TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis

  • Early Modern Toleration

    Benjamin J Kaplan, Jaap GeraertsBOOKEarly Modern Toleration2023

  • From Toleration to Religious Freedom

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLEJournal of Church and State2022

    Journal Article From Toleration to Religious Freedom: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Mariëtta van der Tol, Carys Brown, John Adenitire, and E.S. Kempson Get access From Toleration to Religious Freedom: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Mariëtta van der Tol, Carys Brown, John Adenitire, and E.S. Kempson. New York: Peter Lang, 2021. 294pp. $75.95. Benjamin J Kaplan Benjamin J Kaplan University College London, London, United Kin…

  • A European Turn in Early American History

    Tim Harris, Chris Beneke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early American History2021

    From the nineteenth century onwards, Americans have naturalized their colonial origins into a consensual nationalist history, emphasizing America’s perceived role as a refuge for the persecuted, while smoothing out a myriad of complexities in the process. Evan Haefeli attempts to overturn the assumptions underpinning this narrative and is convinced that many important aspects of early America need to be understood within a broader European contex…

  • Reformation and the Practice of Toleration

    Benjamin J KaplanBOOKReformation and the Practice of…2019

    The Dutch Republic was the most religiously diverse land in early modern Europe, gaining an international reputation for toleration. In Reformation and the Practice of Toleration, Benjamin Kaplan explains why the Protestant Reformation had this outcome in the Netherlands and how people of different faiths managed subsequently to live together peacefully. Bringing together fourteen essays by the author, the book examines the opposition of so-calle…

  • Fictions of Privacy

    Benjamin J KaplanCHAPTERReformation and the Practice of…2019

  • The Legal Rights of Religious Refugees in the ‘Refugee-Cities’ of Early Modern Germany

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2018References: 5

    Nowhere in early modern Europe (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries) did religious refugees enjoy more special legal protections than they did in the so-called ‘refugee-cities’ (Exulantenstädte) of Germany. These were new cities founded, mostly in the seventeenth century, by German princes with the express intention of attracting religious refugees to settle them. Offering two case studies, of Neuhanau and Neuwied, this article examines the legal p…

  • Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe

    Steven E Ozment, Marc R Forster et al.BOOKPiety and Family in Early Modern…2017

  • Catholiques au défi de la Réforme

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    In 1636, Pieter Saenredam drew an image of a Catholic altar in a whitewashed Calvinist church. The church was in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and the drawing was one of several in which Saenredam depicted physical remnants of Catholicism in a city that had gone over to the Reformation more than half a century earlier. In his new book, Bertrand Forclaz shows that such remnants were no mere figments of the artist’s imagination. The Catholic faith did…

  • Geert H. Janssen. The Dutch Revolt and Catholic Exile in Reformation Europe

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Early modern historians have been aware for some time of the important role played by religious refugees and refugee centers such as Emden, London, and of course Geneva in the shaping of Reformed Protestantism. Their role in the fashioning of a clearer, more distinctly Calvinist confessional identity among Dutch Protestants has, for a very long time, formed a key thread in narratives of the Dutch Reformation. In his new book, Geert H. Janssen arg…

  • Religious Encounters in the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEDutch Crossing2013References: 5

    During the early modern era, there were hundreds of political borders in Europe between states with different official religions. People of different faiths encountered one another across these borders, practicing a form of coexistence which histories of religious toleration have largely ignored. The case of Vaals, a village in Dutch Limburg, reveals much about the tenor of religious life in border communities. Located where the borders of the Du…

  • Faith on the Margins

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2010

    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections

  • Divided by Faith

    Benjamin J KaplanBOOKDivided by Faith2007

    Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. Divided by Faith is both history from the bottom up and a much-needed challenge to our belief in the triumph of reason over faith. This compelling story reveals that toleration has taken many guises in the past and suggests that it may well …

  • The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2006

    Arie-Jan Gelderblom, Jan L. De Jong, and Marc van Vaeck, eds. The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs. Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 3 (2003). Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. viii + 332 pp. + 11 b/w pls. index. $155. ISBN: 90-04-12288-5. - Volume 59 Issue 1

  • A Review of Netherlands History

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLEEuropean Review2004

  • Fictions of Privacy

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2002

    Journal Article Fictions of Privacy: House Chapels and the Spatial Accommodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe Get access Benjamin J. Kaplan Benjamin J. Kaplan Professor of Dutch History University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 107, Issue 4, October 2002, Pages 1031–1064, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/107.4.1031 Published: 01 October 2002

  • Fictions of Privacy

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2002

    Benjamin J. Kaplan, Fictions of Privacy: House Chapels and the Spatial Accommodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe, The American Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 4 (October 2002), pp. 1031-1064

  • Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

    Open AccessR Po‐chia Hsia, Benjamin J Kaplan et al.BOOKCalvinism and Religious…2002

    Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Nethe…

  • Diplomacy and Domestic Devotion

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2002Cited by: 2

    In the wake of Europe's religious wars, it became accepted that embassies could include chapels where forms of Christianity illegal in the host country could be practiced. In theory, only ambassadors and their entourage had the right to worship in such chapels, but in practice the latter became bases for full-fledged congregations of native religious dissenters. Constructed out of residential space, the chapels belonged to a broader category of e…

  • Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia

    Open AccessBenjamin J KaplanARTICLEJournal of History2001

  • Religious Choice in the Dutch Republic

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000Cited by: 3

    Religious divisions religion and the revolt confessional choice Buchelius' writings traditions of autobiography Buchelius as a humanist. Part 1 The voice of Mars 1565-1586: revolt and reformation in Utrecht the mockeries of fortuna on the road. Part 2 Life as purgatory 1586-1593: the order confused life as purgatory constraining a wandering spirit Bourgeois but honourable. Part 3 Another road to God 1587-1599: conscience is free piety and novelty…

  • Peace in the Post-Reformation

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1999

  • The Reformation of Community

    Benjamin J KaplanARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1999

  • Calvinists and Libertines

    Andrew Fix, Benjamin J KaplanARTICLEThe American Historical Review1997

    After the Reformation, the Dutch Republic emerged as the most religiously tolerant country in seventeenth-century Europe. Benjamin Kaplan examines the reasons behind this phenomenon, focusing on the struggle of Calvinist reformers to realize their theocratic aspirations in the Netherlands, and the fierce opposition offered to them by a large, amorphous group of people known as 'Libertines'. Nowhere was this struggle more intense than in Utrecht, …