Sep 1, 2016 By: yunews
Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, professor of history at , received a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. The fellowship included a generous stipend to support his current research project on the history of fear in Enlightenment Europe.
This research follows from work he has previously done in his books A Poisoned Chalice (2002) and The Dangers Within: Fear in Enlightenment France (in progress). 鈥淚 have a particular interest,鈥 he explained, 鈥渋n the French- and German-speaking worlds, especially the history of the book and its transnational circulation, the history of emotions and their relationship to Enlightenment philosophy and the historical roots of democratic political culture.鈥
