Dr. Jaap Geraerts

Since February 2019: postdoctoral researcher at IEG (DH Lab)
2015-2019: Research associate, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (UCL)
2013-2014: Research assistant, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (UCL)
2010-2015: PhD in History, University College London (UCL)
2008-2010: Research MA in History, Utrecht University
2005-2008: BA in History, Utrecht University
2000-2004: BA in Business Informatics (Hogeschool van Utrecht)

• Confessional coexistence in early modern Europe
• Early modern Catholicism
• Early modern nobility
• History of reading

• Benjamin J. Kaplan and J. Geraerts (eds.), Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches (Routledge, 2023).
• Priests’ libraries in the Dutch Republic, in: R. Adams and J. Glomski (eds.), Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems & Perspectives (Brill, 2023), 96-120.
• The Counter-Reformation on Display. Religious Art at the Estates of the Catholic Nobility in the Dutch Golden Age, in: Esther Meier and Almut Pollmer-Schmidt (eds.), Kunst & Katholizismus in der niederländischen Republik / Art & Catholicism in the Dutch Republic (Petersberg, 2023), 47-60.
• Competing sacred spaces in the Dutch Republic: confessional integration and segregation, European History Quarterly 51:1 (2021), 7–44.
• Patrons of the Old Faith. The Catholic Nobility in Utrecht and Guelders, c.1580–1702, Leiden 2018.