Events

Religious Encounters in the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe
December 2, 2010
Ben Kaplan, Professor of History at the University of London, presented a case of Protestant-Catholic conflict over marriage and baptism in the Overmaas region during the 18th century, demonstrating that the tensions and conflicts in the seventeenth century over religious adherence persisted into the Age of Enlightenment, and showing how the peculiar borderland zone around Maastricht and Aachen, with Protestant and Catholic territories so close to each other, both eased some tensions but allowed the differences and conflicts to persist.