Carolin Schmitz

Carolin Schmitz is a Researcher specializing in the medical and social history of Early Modern Spain. She served as Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded project "From Cures to Courts of Justice: The Medical Encounter and Social Order in Early Modern Spain" (5 January 2022 – 31 December 2022), examining intersections between medical practices and judicial systems.

Her research focuses on:

• Medical History (particularly therapeutic encounters)
• Social History of early modern institutions
• Spanish colonial legal frameworks
• History of medicine-law intersections
• Power dynamics in healthcare settings

Dr. Schmitz's work demonstrates how medical knowledge production influenced court proceedings and social hierarchies in 16th-17th century Spain, revealing complex relationships between healers, patients, and judicial authorities through archival analysis of case records and medical texts.