Staff profile

Joost Oosterhuis is a cultural-military historian and PhD-candidate at Durham University. He holds a Barker Doctoral Scholarship as part of the Inventing Futures Programme at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS). He works on a comparative study of soldier–civilian relations in France and the Netherlands during the Wars of Religion (1560–1630). His work concerns the relation between military and civilian communities in early modern Europe, and the social-cultural make-up of early modern field armies and navies. His previous research includes a study of hostage-taking by the French army after the Year of Disasters (Rampjaar) and a study of the mediation of feuds in the Dutch States Army (1688-1697). He is currently part of the executive board of the Medieval and Early Modern Student Association in Durham, and is co-organising their 20^th anniversary conference.