Monique O'Connell
Title
James P. Barefield Professor of History
Institution
Wake Forest University
Current Research
Venetian politics, the political culture of Venetian empire, political communication
Recent Publications
• “Jem Sultan, Venice’s Intelligence System: Complex Archives, Information, and the Composite State,” part of a special issue on Information and the Government of the Composite Polities of the late-medieval and Early Modern World. European Review of History 30, n. 4 (2023): 580-599.
• “Representative Spaces of Republicanism: Constitutional Thinking, Virtue Politics, and Venice’s Great Council Hall in Early Modern Europe,” in Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice, edited by Alessandro Metlica and Giovanni Florio, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), 64-75.
• “ An immoderate appetite for empire: the multiple lives of Paolo Morosini’s defense of Venetian expansion,” part of a special issue on Renaissance Humanism and the Venetian Empire, edited by Clémence Revest and Luka Špoljarić, Renaissance Studies (2025).
• “Personal Experience and Politics in Venetian Imperial Humanism (1470-1482),” Colloquia Maruliana 34 no. 34 (2025): 69-80.
• “Representative Spaces of Republicanism: Constitutional Thinking, Virtue Politics, and Venice’s Great Council Hall in Early Modern Europe,” in Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice, edited by Alessandro Metlica and Giovanni Florio, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), 64-75.
• “ An immoderate appetite for empire: the multiple lives of Paolo Morosini’s defense of Venetian expansion,” part of a special issue on Renaissance Humanism and the Venetian Empire, edited by Clémence Revest and Luka Špoljarić, Renaissance Studies (2025).
• “Personal Experience and Politics in Venetian Imperial Humanism (1470-1482),” Colloquia Maruliana 34 no. 34 (2025): 69-80.
Forthcoming Publications
• “Tumults on Venetian Crete and Contentious Politics in Venice’s Empire,” The Venetian State, the Greek Territories and their Stories (13th-18th Centuries), Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Anastasia Papadia Lala, Forthcoming 2026