María del Carmen García Herrero (born 6 April 1959, Madrid) is the Chair of Mediaeval History ofthe University of Zaragoza. García Herrero graduated at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid specialising in Mediaeval History. She defended in 1982 her dissertation on commercial relations between Castile and Aragon around the middle of the 15th century. She continued her PhD studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Zaragoza, and defended her thesis in 1987 (Excellent cum laude). With a summary of her thesis, she obtained the Prize of Investigation of the City of Zaragoza in 1988, published as ''Mujeres de la Edad Media : actividades políticas, socioecónomicas y culturales, 1994', It is the first thesis focused in the study of the mediaeval wo