Valeria Caldarella Allaire

Valeria Caldarella Allaire is a lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Caen Normandie and a member of the ERLIS research group (EA 4254). She is the author of a thesis on relations between the states of the Italian peninsula and the kingdom of France during the first 15 years of the reign of François I. Her publications focus on the most striking moments of the period known as the Italian Wars, which, between negotiations and bloody battles, changed the political context of the peninsula. In addition, her research analyses the dynamics of intercultural exchange between the states of the Italian peninsula and the rest of Europe, and the processes of appropriation and rejection that were put in place, leading to a deeper understanding of the political stakes and military events.

She is currently devoting particular attention to the vicissitudes of the Kingdom of Naples (military events, the socio-economic system, and the internal and international diplomatic mechanisms that determined the fate of the kingdom from the conquest by the House of Aragon to the end of the Italian Wars). She is currently co-organising the seminar ’The Time of the Iberian Empire’, a collaboration between ERLIS and HisTeMé, and is a member of the CONCORDIA International Partnership Laboratory between the University of Caen Normandy and the University of Cantabria (Spain): “Después de la revuelta: restaurar el orden y la concordia en la Monarquía española, siglos XVI-XVIII // After the revolt: Restoring order and concord in the Spanish monarchy, XVIe-XVIIIe”.