Quentin Van Doosselaere                                                     

 

Quentin Van Doosselaere is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow of Nuffield. He uses network analysis to study the social foundation of economic changes over the longue dureé. His current project, and the topic of his forthcoming book Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa, centres on the interplay between economic institutions and social interactions that led to the emergence of the western commercial revolution, a revolution that laid the groundwork for modern capitalism. Coding thousands notarial records, he has build a large data set (over 22,000 ties between 9000 persons) to formally model 300 years of network dynamics in medieval Genoa (1150-1450).