Benoît Maréchaux is currently a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) of Florence. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2017). Previously, he obtained a BA degree in History from the Université Paris-IV Sorbonne and a MA degree in European History from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). He has been visiting scholar at the Laboratorio di Storia Marittima e Navale (Università degli Studi di Genova) in 2014 and 2015.

In his PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof. Carlos Álvarez Nogal, he explored the nexus between navies, outsourcing of war and international finance in the Early Modern Mediterranean, developing his research on the Genoese naval entrepreneurs who managed galleys for the Spanish Empire and played a decisive role in the distribution of silver throughout Europe (16th-17th centuries).

His current research interests include: Early Modern History; Economic History; History of the Italian and Hispanic Worlds; Mediterranean studies; Early Modern Business History; Financial History; Warfare and naval entrepreneurs; Comparative and transnational History.

Since 2010, Benoît has taught Early Modern History, Historical Methodology, Financial History and World Economic History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and at the European University Institute of Florence.

Main publications

‘Los asentistas de galeras genoveses y la articulación naval de un imperio policéntrico (siglos XVI-XVII)’ (submitted).

‘‘Non andare mai alla giustizia’. Conflictividad marítima, mediación y normas jurídicas comunes entre Venecia y el Imperio otomano (1600-1630)’ in M. Herrero Sánchez (ed.), Repúblicas y republicanismo en la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII), Madrid, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017, pp. 205-228.

‘Consuls vénitiens en Méditerranée orientale (1575-1645)’ in M. Aglietti, M. Herrero Sánchez and F. Zamora Rodríguez (eds.), Los cónsules de extranjeros en la Edad Moderna y a principios de la Edad Contemporánea, Madrid, Doce Calles, 2013, pp. 145-158.

‘Negociar, disuadir y comunicar para la conservación y reputación de la Monarquía: la república de Venecia en las estrategias de la Pax Hispánica bajo el valimiento de Lerma’ in B.J. García García, M. Herrero Sánchez and A. Hugon (eds.), El arte de la prudencia. La Tregua de los Doce Años en la Europa de los Pacificadores, Madrid, Fundación Carlos de Amberes, 2013, pp. 91-120.

‘Cultiver l’alternative au système philo-hispanique : attraction, diffusion et appropriation du modèle vénitien dans la pensée républicaniste génoise du premier XVIIe siècle’, Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, CXXV/1, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 657-693.

‘L’impossible alliance : l’ambassade extraordinaire du Cardinal d’Estrées à Venise (janv.-avril 1701)’, Dix-septième siècle, vol. 247/2, 2010, pp. 291-312.