Description: In Patrons of the Old Faith, Jaap Geraerts provides the first full-length study of the Catholic nobility in two inland provinces of the Dutch Republic, Utrecht and Guelders, in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Brief description: Jaap Geraerts, Ph.D. (2015), University College London, is Research Associate at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. He has published on the 'radical' Reformation, early modern Catholicism, and the Catholic nobility in the Dutch Republic.