Mariana Barros completed her BA in History and her MA in Medieval Studies at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP). The privileged research areas are Peninsular medieval history and the cultural history of the Middle Ages, particularly the study of Iberian chronology. She is currently a PhD student at FCT and is developing her research project at FLUP, which aims to understand the geographical perception of the editors of the Historia Compostellana at the scale of Latin Christianity.