Dr Maria Fusaro
Senior Lecturer
PhD CANTAB
Extension: 4456
Telephone: 01392 724456
My research and teaching interests lie in the social and economic history, interpreted in its broadest sense, of Early Modern Europe.
My major area of expertise is the history of Italy (especially the Venetian Republic) and the Mediterranean between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. My research has focused mostly on commercial networks and the role they played in the early phases of globalization, and on the economic, social and cultural analysis of late medieval and early modern empires. I have also published on the trade between the Mediterranean and the north of Europe, the history of the Venetian dominions in Greece, and on the dialogue between different national historiographies.
Recently I have also started to investigate issues related to the presence of commercial litigation in early modern courts of justice, with particular reference to the status of 'foreigners' in the civil courts form the middle ages to the eighteenth century.
From January 2012 I shall start working on a research project which focuses on the comparative study of contractual conditions and economic treatment of sailors in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. This project is financed by the European Research Council and will last for three years, employing also three research assistants.
