Autores

É Professora Catedrática da Universidade de Coimbra e Investigadora do Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura. Pertence a diversas Academias e Comissões nacionais e internacionais e é Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Medievais.A sua investigação, divulgada em cerca de trezentas publicações, algumas traduzidas em russo, espanhol, francês, italiano, inglês e alemão, incide sobre as mais diversas temáticas do período medieval, com destaque para a historiografia, história política, social, religiosa, institucional, económico-social, poder local, biografia, mundo rural, alimentação, quotidiano.Recebeu oito prémios da APH e o Prémio Ciência da FCG (1990). Foi agraciada com o Grau de Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique (2011).

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Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho has been a tenured professor at the University of Coimbra since 1991 and is a resident academic at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of History, an academic at the Portuguese Academy of History, president of the Portuguese Medieval Studies Society, a member of the board of management of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, and an elected member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique. She is a member of the academic councils of many national and international journals, such as the e-Journal of Portuguese History (Porto, Providence), En la España Medieval (Madrid), Studia Historica: Historia Medieval (Salamanca), and the Revista Anuario de Estudios Medievales. She is a researcher at the Centre for History of Society and Culture, having also directed a research project there at one point. She also served as part of the History Degrees External Assessment Committee (1998-1999) and was an FCT Examiner. A member of the External Assessment Committee for the master’s and doctoral programmes, representing the Assessment and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (A3ES), she received seven awards from the Portuguese Academy of History in addition to the Science Prize from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1990). Her research has been disseminated in more than 350 national and international scientific meetings, including more than 200 articles and works on various medieval themes, especially those relating to religious, institutional, and socio-economic issues, the rural world, and local power history.