Freedom and the Construction of Europe Worshop: Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty

We are inviting applications from scholars at an early stage in their careers to join a Network and research project for the study of freedom in early-modern and modern Europe. Our basic ambition is to make new and original contributions to historical ...

We are inviting applications from scholars at an early stage in their careers to join a Network and research project for the study of freedom in early-modern and modern Europe. Our basic ambition is to make new and original contributions to historical scholarship. The Network will adopt as widely comparative a perspective as possible, seeking to correct the current imbalance in the historiography towards western Europe and the origins of the liberal state. We hope to do greater justice to the complexity of the political and intellectual traditions out of which modern European conceptions of freedom emerged. Besides these scholarly ambitions, we want to consider whether the early-modern controversies may provide us with resources for thinking about contemporary political issues in Europe. The European Union currently faces the necessity of reinvigorating a culture based on freedom, democracy and mutual tolerance. These problems cannot be dealt with in an historical vacuum. Their solutions must in part be drawn from an understanding of the conceptual resources provided by European traditions of political thinking and practice. It is this understanding that we hope to deepen and to foster by means of our scholarly work.

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