Autores

Ana Rita Rocha é Investigadora Júnior no projeto VINCULUM – Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries), financiado pelo ERC (agreement ID 819734). Tem um doutoramento (2019) e um mestrado (2011) em História Medieval pela Universidade de Coimbra. É membro integrado do Instituto de História Contemporânea e investigadora colaboradora do Instituto de Estudos Medievais, ambos da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Tem sido professora auxiliar convidada na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Tem apresentado várias comunicações em congressos e seminários nacionais e internacionais e publicado vários artigos em revistas científicas e capítulos de livros. A sua investigação foca-se na caridade e pobreza medievais, na assistência aos pobres e doentes na Coimbra medieval, na lepra e nos leprosos medievais, e na vinculação no Portugal medieval e moderno.

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Ana Rita Rocha is a PhD researcher in the ERC-funded project VINCULUM – Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries) (agreement ID 819734). She holds a PhD (2019) and a MA (2011) in Medieval History from the University of Coimbra. She is a full member of the Institute of Contemporary History and a contributor to the Institute for Medieval Studies, both of NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She has been an invited assistant teacher at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. Has presented several papers in national and international congresses and seminars and has published several journal articles and book chapters. Her research is focused on medieval charity and poverty, assistance to the poor and sick in medieval Coimbra, medieval leprosy and lepers, and entailment in medieval and modern Portugal.