Ana Rita Rocha

E-mail: anarita.srocha@gmail.com

Ana Rita Rocha holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Coimbra (2019) and is a researcher in the Center for the History of Society and Culture. She was a researcher in the ERC-funded project “VINCULUM. Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)”, based at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2019-2024), and an invited assistant teacher at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2021-2024). She is also a collaborating researcher at the Institute for Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) and at the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH). She recently published the book Power: Entailment, status, and social mobility (2024). Her research focuses on the topics of poverty and charity, assistance to the poor and sick and entailment (morgadios and chapels) in the medieval and modern periods.

Main interests and research topics: Medieval history; Social history; Poverty and charity; History of leprosy; Entailment (morgadios and chapels).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-5927

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//0C14-16CF-B36E

Repository: https://fcsh-unl.academia.edu/AnaRitaRocha

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