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.
• “Vessels of Communication,” in A View of Venice. Portrait of a Renaissance City, edited by Kristin Huffman. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2024).
• “ 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).
• “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.
• “Vessels of Communication,” in A View of Venice. Portrait of a Renaissance City, edited by Kristin Huffman. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2024).
• “ 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).
Forthcoming Publications