During the period of the project, the Fellow conducted extensive research in Venice’s state and patriarchal archives and libraries in order to fulfil the various research objectives. She began to disseminate this research to a broad audience via a number of academic and non-academic publications, which will continue to appear over the coming years. These include a peer-reviewed article already published in the prestigious journal Urban History (and awarded the annual Dyos prize for the best article submitted to the journal) and another article shortly to be submitted to the Journal of Early Modern History as part of a special issue on the theme “Cities in Motion: Mobility and Urban Space in Early Modern Europe”, co-edited by the researcher. A further significant output of the project will be the monograph The Floating World: Migration, Mobility and Hospitality in Renaissance Venice, to be completed and submitted to Oxford University Press by 2020. In addition, the researcher published online a digital map (“Welcome to Venice: Arriving in the Renaissance City”), to provide scholars, students and interested (virtual) travellers with a novel perspective on the experience of navigating the Renaissance city as a migrant or traveller.
In addition to these outputs, the findings of the project were also publicized via numerous presentations by the researcher at conferences and workshops in Italy, the US, the UK and Croatia and a keynote address at Oxford University. The researcher also organized a number of events that explored the fundamental importance of mobility and migration in European Renaissance history. These included a series of conference panels at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Chicago in 2017, and a major conference (The Renaissance on the Road: Mobility and Change in Europe, 1450-1650) in Florence in 2018, which featured keynote addresses from leading lights in the field, Sanjay Subrahmanyan (UCLA) and Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto). As well as allowing her to present her project results within a broader network of international scholars, these events provided the material for a collection of essays that the researcher will co-edit on The Mechanics of Mobility in the Early Modern World. This book, as well as the aforementioned special issue of the Journal of Early Modern History, will be among the first works to seriously consider the significance of mobility in the broader history of pre-modern Europe.