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 several projects, including a comparative study of political iconoclasm and visual dissent in the viceregal capital cities of Goa and Mexico City during the seventeenth century. I am also completing an article on the cross-cultural network of a Portuguese renegade who served for many years as captain and governor in the Sultanate of Ahmadnagar at the time when it was ruled by the Abyssinian regent and former slave Malik Ambar.
At Oxford, I am one of the convenors of the Iberian History Seminar and the Reading Group on Iberian History (Medieval & Early Modern).
For more information, please see my page on the History Faculty website.
I can be reached by email: giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk.