Study of the labour market and urban manufacturing in Mediterranean cities. The impact of the commercial rivalry between Valencia and Alicante on the configuration of the urban network. Foreign mercantile diasporas and changes in consumption and marketing patterns.
The Moorish minority in the Kingdom of Valencia, before and after the explusion, resistance to acculturation, their involvement in banditry and in the nobiliary factions. Captives and slaves. Frenc immigration. The persistence of manifestations of popular culture and its repression.
Analysis of the trajectories and lineages of the Valencian and Sardinian elites. Social conflict between the estates and the monarchy. Officials and magistrates at the service of the King and the Monarchy. Social implications of the defensive policy in the Mediterranean.
Study of the historical processes of construction of gender models and identities (femininities-masculinities), with special attention to the analysis of normative and fictional literature, as well as their internalisation, appropriation or rejection by the subjects. Analysis of social practices and intellectual strategies of relations between the sexes.
