Giuseppe Marcocci

I am an Official Fellow and Lecturer in History at Exeter College and Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800) at the University of Oxford. My research has mostly focused on religious history and the history of political culture. I have written on conversion and persecution of religious minorities in the Iberian kingdoms and their overseas possessions, Spanish and Portuguese debates over race and slavery, as well as the Iberian theories of empire and colonial authority across the Iberian globe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. My latest book The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (OUP, 2020) reconstructs the transformation of historical writing in the age of exploration. I am currently working on a comparative study of political iconoclasm and visual dissent in the viceregal capital cities of Goa and Mexico City during the first half of the seventeenth century.

I have long been interested in early modern Italian history in a wider perspective. I have been one of the first scholars to discuss how to rethink our approach to the Italian Peninsula in the early global age (c. 1300-1700) in an article published in Storica in 2014. I have also written about Florentines and Venetians in early modern South Asia and co-edited with Lucio Biasiori the volume Machiavelli, Islam and the East (Palgrave, 2018).  

For more information, please see my page on the History Faculty website.

I can be reached by email: giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk.