Víctor Farías Zurita
Doctor in History
Name: Víctor Eduardo Farías Zurita
Category and institution: Associate professor. Departament d’Humanitats - Institut Universitari d'Història Jaume Vicens Vives, Universitat Pompeu Fabray
Contact details: victor.farias@upf.edu. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona
Short CV:
Víctor Farías Zurita was born in 1961 in Santiago de Chile and studied in the Federal Republic of Germany. He studied Medieval History, Modern History and Germanistik at the Technische Universität Berlin, at the Freie Universität Berlin and also at the Universitat de Barcelona. He obtained his degree in Medieval History at the Universitat de Barcelona. He was a granted student during his doctorate at the Universität Hagen (Alemania) and defended his PhD in 1999 at the Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens i Vives of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra with a thesis entitled “Poblamiento y sociedad en el noreste catalán. Siglos XI-XIII”. He teaches in the Facultat de Humanitats of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and also in the Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens i Vives since 1995. He is currently an associate professor of Medieval History in the Departament d'Humanitats of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He has been a visiting profesor and researcher in several universities and academical institutions in Spain, USA, France, Chile and Catalonia. His main lines of research are the History of rural Mediterranean structures of settlement; small-scale urbanization: small towns in Medieval Catalonia; research with Medieval sources: notaries and notarial registers in Medieval Catalonia; coexistence of Christian, Jews and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia; and the History of Medieval Cultures.
Selected bibliography
- « Las villas de la Cataluña Vieja y su mercado. Una contribución a la historia de una institución señorial (siglos XI-XIV) », Renda i fiscalitat a la Catalunya Baixmedieval. Estudis dedicats a Manuel Sánchez Martínez, ed. Jordi Morelló Baget, Pere Ortí Gost, Pere Verdés Pijuan, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Institució Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona, 2018, p. 553-601
- «Sutzura e viltat carnal. The Place of Sin and Lust in the Treatises of the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis (c. 1400)», The Friars and their Influence in Medieval Spain, ed. Francisco Garcia-Serrano, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2018, p. 221-245
- «Las villas de la Catalunya Vella. La construcción de una red urbana medieval (circa 1150 - circa 1350)», Dynamiques du monde rural: échanges, prélèvements et consommation en Méditerranée ocidentale, ed. Monique Bourin, François Menant, Lluís To Figueras, École Française de Rome, Roma, 2013, p. 23-38
El mas i la vila a la Catalunya medieval. Els fonaments d’una societat senyorialitzada (segles XI-XIV), Publicacions Universitat de València, València, 2009
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