Dr Floris Verhaart

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Floris Verhaart is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter. Within the Cultures of Philosophy project, Floris focuses on the Dutch Republic. Before joining Warwick, he completed a DPhil in history at the University of Oxford and held postdoctoral fellowships at Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork, and the University of Warwick. His research interests include neo-Latin studies and the intellectual and religious culture of the Low Countries, France, and the British Isles. He is the author and (co-)editor of four books, including Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns (Oxford: OUP, 2020) and Protestant Politics beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022; edited with Ian Campbell). A fifth book, an edition in three volumes of the correspondence of Dominicus Baudius (edited with Paul Botley), will be published by Droz in 2025.