Nicola Carotenuto

Nicola Carotenuto

DPhil Candidate  

Affiliation: Faculty of History
Expert in: History of migration; Trade and migration
Geographic focus: Mediterranean

Nicola is a DPhil student in medieval history. He received both his BA and MA from the University of Pisa, while at the same time attending Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), where he studied medieval history and palaeography. Nicola has been twice to the ENS (Paris) as an exchange student and has participated to numerous conferences both in Europe (such as the IMC) and in the US.

The topic of his research is the study of Venetian commercial networks in the light of Mediterranean history, the conceptualization of trade networks, commercial history, and the economic history of Venice. This theme is particularly significant since global connections are the crucial theoretical tool to overcome the notion of a unified Mediterranean and to rather put the emphasis on the entanglement and the connections taking place at all levels of medieval commerce, analysing both long – distance and coasting trade.