Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

Email: isabeldosguimaraessa@gmail.com

Isabel dos Guimarães Sá took her PHD in History at the European University Institute (Florence) in 1992. She is a full professor at the History Department of the University of Minho, where she teaches Early Modern European History and methodologies of research in History. Her research has dealt with various subjects within social history between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries: history of the family, namely of child abandonment; the history of the confraternities of Misericórdia in Portugal and her empire; material culture, and the writing of biographies and life histories. She is developing research about the relationships between the monarchy and the ecclesiastical seigniory of Braga during the sixteenth century, although her main line of research concerns the study of charitable donors in Portugal and the Iberian empires.

Main interests and research topics: Social History; History of Families; Charity and assistance; History of material culture.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5714-5188

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/2B1B-33C5-BCDC

Repository: https://uminho.academia.edu/IsabelDosguimaraessa