Carlos Crespo Amat

Affiliation
Universidad de Alicante, Spain

Carlos Crespo Amat has a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Alicante (2021), after completing the Interuniversity Master’s in Medieval European Identity coordinated by the University of Lleida (2016) and a degree in History from the University of Alicante (2014), obtaining with honor the three degrees. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM-FCSH/NOVA), where he developed the research project PORTIVAL – Projection and Organization of Transnational Exchange Networks in Valencia and the Portuguese Atlantic: 1350-1450. 

He is an honorary collaborator of the Public Power research group at the University of Alicante, Society and Culture in the Kingdom of Valencia, ss. XIII-XV, to which he belongs, assuming different functions, since 2016. He was also a visiting researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the Università degli Studi di Firenze and the Université Paris-Cité. 

He was a PhD researcher at the University of Alicante’s Department of Medieval History, Modern History, and Historiographical Sciences and Techniques for more than four years.

Its areas of research revolve around late-medieval political-economic relations, the 13th and 4th-century foundations of the market economy, and the actors who contributed to its development between ca. 1350 and ca. 1450 in the kingdom of Valencia and the Iberian and Euro-Mediterranean spaces that they integrated. This interest is evident in his doctoral thesis, which focuses on the study of the area – hitherto unexplored – of the process experienced between Castile, the Crown of Aragon and the Mediterranean: the formation of a transnational market in the kingdom of Valencia during the late of the Middle Ages (1370-1430) and which was awarded the International Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis on the Crown of Aragon granted in 2022 by the Asociación de Historiadores de la Corona de Aragón (HISCOAR).

The analysis allowed to define the phenomena of economic osmosis generated between these three geographical areas, through the configuration and consolidation of commercial circuits of a supra-state nature, a definition whose development has been summarized in several scientific articles and in a monograph that will be launched soon.

E-mail
carloscrespo@fcsh.unl.pt