The A. de Almeida Fernandes Prize 2020, which is the result of a joint organization by the municipalities of Ponte de Lima and Viseu, was awarded to Ana Rita Rocha, a researcher at IEM and currently a member of the Vinculum project team, for her study “A assistência em Coimbra na Idade Média: dimensão urbana, religiosa e socioeconómica (séculos XII a XVI)“.
The award-winning work corresponds to her doctoral thesis, defended in September 2019 at the University of Coimbra, in which the researcher sought to study in depth the practices of charity and assistance to the poor and sick in Coimbra during the Middle Ages, focusing on individual and institutional charity, largely led by the multiple hospitals and confraternities founded in the city during that chronology.
The award ceremony for the A. de Almeida Fernandes Prize will take place on May 28 at the Terceiros Museum in Ponte de Lima, the municipality responsible for the 2020 edition of the prize.