Hilário Franco Júnior

Emeritus professor of Medieval History at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (1987-1998), doctor from that University (1982), postdoctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1990-1993), founder and Director of Signum, revue of the Associação Brasileira de Estudos Medievais (1998-2008), guest professor at EHESS (2004), Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (since 2007), Member of the Editorial Board of Medievalista (since 2008). Published articles in Revista de História (São Paulo), Médiévales (Paris), The Journal of Medieval History (Oxford), Le Moyen Age (Liège), Revue de l’histoire des religions (Paris), Annales. Histoire. Sciences Sociales (Paris), Cultura. Revista de História e Teoria das Ideias (Lisboa), Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Abingdon, UK), Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura (Coimbra), Medievalista (Lisboa), Romania (Paris). He receveid two Jabuti Prizes of the Brazilian Chamber of Book: 1997 for A Eva Barbada. Ensaios de Mitologia Medieval (São Paulo, Edusp); 1999, for Cocanha. A História de um País Imaginário (São Paulo, Companhia das Letras). The Italian translation of this book (Rome, Città Nuova) won the Prize Finale Ligure di Storia Medievale, 2001, of the Università di Genova. His most recent book is Em Busca do Paraíso Perdido: as Utopias Medievais, Cotia (SP), Ateliê, 2021.

E-mail
hilario.franco-jr@wanadoo.fr