ANDRETTA, Elisa

Max Weber Fellow, 2008-2009

From September 2009:

Research Fellow
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
Columbia University

Email Elisa.Andretta@gmail.com  
  

 

Elisa Andretta earned her Ph.D. degree in History from the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales” and from the “Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza”.

Her current research focuses on cultural and practical medicine in Mediterranean Europe in the early modern age. It is inscribed within the framework of social and political history of the Medical practices in the post-Tridentin Catholic world. In particular, it focuses on Rome and Madrid in the second half of 16th century. By adopting a comparative approach to these two cities, her goal is to shed more light on the relationship between science, political power and religion in the Early Modern period.

Her Ph.D. dissertation “Le scalpel de Pierre. Médecine et médecins à Rome au XVIe siècle”, deals with the social and political history of science in the Catholic world, focusing on the centre of that world – Rome – and examining its capacity to redefine medical knowledge and to appropriate new practices within a particular context (pontifical and cardinal patronage) and a changing cultural paradigm (from Humanism to the Counter-Reformation).

Elisa Andretta is Attaché temporaires d'enseignement et de recherche (ATER) at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane for the academic year 2007/2008. She teaches courses on History of European societies (17th-18th centuries); Europe in the 16th century; Italian art in the Renaissance.

She is member of international projects such as the programme Sciences et capitales européennes : revisiter les origines de l’espace public des savoirs (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle)- Young Researchers Programme 2006 ANR-France.

 

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