Monja Stahlberger is an Early Career Researcher in German and Austrian Exile Studies and German Studies, and editor of the German author page of the CCWW.
Person
Ms Virginia Ghelarducci
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PhD Topic
The Genesis of Natural History and Ethnology in Colonial Peru My dissertation project focuses on astrological medicine in early modern colonial Americas, particularly Peru. Through an analysis of printed sources published in Spanish America mainly in the 1600s and a comparison with other Iberian and European texts, my thesis explores how astrology, far from being considered a pseudo-science, played instead a central role in defining and informing medical practices in both Iberia and colonial Americas where traditional Hippocratic medicine encountered a new climate, a new natural environment and a new 'materia medica'.
Research interests
Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Regional history
