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Victoria Bartels

Victoria Bartels

Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher
A806 Department of Art and Media
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Art and Media

Victoria is a Research Fellow, who specialises in the cultural history of early modern Italy. She holds a PhD in Early Modern European History from the University of Cambridge, where her doctoral research examined the cultural role of arms and armour in Renaissance Florence. Her current research interests focus on protective dress, weaponry, violence, and contemporary notions of gender. Victoria previously served as a Kress Fellow at the Medici Archive Project in Florence. For the Refashioning project, Victoria primarily works with archival material sourced from Italian state archives.

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Publications

Victoria Bartels 2025 Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650

Victoria Bartels 2023 RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY

Victoria Bartels 2023 Shadow Agents of Renaissance War

Paula Hohti, Sophie Pitman, Michele Nicole Robinson, Stefania Montemezzo, Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen, Victoria Bartels, Lena Kingelin, Piia Lempiäinen 2022

Victoria Bartels, Katy Bond 2020 A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg