Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos

Email: melicampos@gmail.com

Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos holds a PhD in Medieval History and serves as a researcher and visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (U. Coimbra). She researches on urban parish communities, analysing the ecclesiastical and lay groups that shaped medieval Portuguese cities – mainly Coimbra and its region. Alongside her work in ecclesiastical, urban, and social history, she has published studies in palaeography and the diplomatic analysis of medieval sources. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral research with competitive funding from the Portugues Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and has collaborated with R&D Units such as CIDEHUS (U. Évora), CRIHAM (U. Limoges), LAMOP (U. Paris 1) and LEM-CERCOR (U. Jean Monnet). She coordinated the project COMMEMORtis (http://doi.org/10.54499/EXPL/HAR-HIS/0532/2021) and currently directs CHSC’s participation in the RESTORY consortium (https://doi.org/10.3030/101132781), coordinated by the Babes Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca.

Main interests and research topics: Urban History; History of the Secular and Parish Clergy; Prosopography; Digital Humanities.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3131-7356

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/E317-F872-2CA6

Repository: https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/cris/rp/rp08148

Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities