Elena Brambilla

Elena Brambilla (29 July 1942 – 3 February 2018) was an Italian historian.

Biography Elena Brambilla was born in Milan, 29 July 1942. She was the daughter of Franca Brambilla Ageno. Brambilla specialized in modern history, graduating in 1967 University of Milan.

She worked first as an assistant before becoming a professor at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Milan, starting in 1983. She coordinated the Italian-French university degree in two-year specialization in modern history. She devoted herself in particular to the history of the university, of medicine, and of science, to the relations between State and Church, as well as the history of women and gender identity. and Communications of the Political Research Center of the Sorbonne. She was a member of the board of Unicomli, providing a series of history editions for Lombardy. La città e la corte: buone e cattive maniere tra Medioevo ed età moderna, Guerini e associati, 1991. with Giovanni Muto, La Lombardia spagnola, Milano, Unicopli, 1997, p. 426. Alle origini del Sant'Uffizio: penitenza, confessione e giustizia spirituale dal Medioevo al XXVI secolo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2000 (1ª edizione), p. 590. Genealogie del sapere: università, professioni giuridiche e nobiltà togata in Italia (XIII - XVII secolo), Milano, Unicopli, 2005, p. 384. La giustizia intollerante: inquisizioni e tribunali confessionali in Europa (secoli IV-XVIII), Roma, Carocci Editore, 2006 (1ª edizione), p. 272. with Carlo Capra, Aurora Scotti, Istituzioni e cultura in età napoleonica, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2008, p. 657. Routines of existence: time, life and after life in society and religion, Pisa, Pisa University Press, 2009, p. 120. with Alessia Lirosi, Le cronache di Santa Cecilia: un monastero femminile a Roma in età moderna, Roma, Viella, 2009, p. 309. with Daniel Armogathe, Du lien politique au lien social: les élites, Aix-en-Provence, UMR Telemme, 2009, p. 250. Corpi invasi e viaggi dell'anima: santità, possessione, esorcismo dalla teologia barocca alla medicina illuminista, Roma, Viella, 2010 (1ª edizione), p. 302. with Letizia Arcangeli, Stefano Levati, Sociabilità e relazioni femminili nell'Europa moderna, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2013, p. 323. with Anne Jacobson Schutte, La storia di genere in Italia in età moderna: un confronto tra storiche nordamericane e italiane, Roma, Viella, 2014, p. 468.