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Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds
The Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds The Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds contains all the documents –books, journals and manuscripts– given in custody to the Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes, Secció d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives of the UdG, in June 1988 by the historian heirs. The fonds includes 2.711 books, 1.263 leaflets, 32 serial titles and personal papers and it can be consulted at the Biblioteca Barri Vell de la Biblioteca de la Universitat de Girona. Most of the books are dedicated to history, geography and economy and the manuscripts section is a the product of Vicens Vives' classes and research, with many bibliographic references and notes taken form archives. This fonds is of most importance to show the evolution of the scientific work of Jaume Vicens Vives
Jaume Vicens Vives b.
Girona, 1910 - d. Lyon, 1960. Historian.
He studied philosophy and letters in Barcelona (1926-30), where his
teachers were Antonio de la Torre and Pere Bosch Gimpera. Professor at the
Institute-School (1932-33), he moved to the Autonomous University
(1933-37) as head of the course and assistant, while winning the chair of
geography and history at the institute in Figueres. In 1936 he read his
doctoral thesis, Ferran II i la ciutat de
Barcelona (1936-37).
Sanctioned after 1939, he experienced difficult years in which he had to
make a living writing articles on international politics in the weekly "Destino"
(under the pseudonym Lorenzo Guillén) and published textbooks and
popular works. He was assigned in 1942 to the institute in Baeza, and
shortly after participated in the founding of a publishing house which
proposed to improve textbooks. He renewed his research task with
Historia de los remensas en el siglo XV (1945), and in 1947 won the
chair of modern history at the University of Saragossa, where the
following year he moved, also by competition, to that of Barcelona. In
1950, on attending the International Congress of Historical Sciences in
Paris, he entered into contact with the new currents of European
historiography and received the strong influence of the "Annales" school,
which led him to programmatic affirmations in which he proclaimed the
importance of economic factors and, very especially, his faith in the
efficacy of the mètode estadístic, although with adherences as
incongruous as geopolitics, the generations method or historical
morphologies. Despite the frankly positivist character of Vicens'
approach, the Spanish academic world viewed it with suspicion and wished
to justify with ideological reasons the refusal of a demand for
modernisation which revealed the dominant intellectual poverty. He carried
out this task of renewal in his own work of these years — Aproximación
a la historia de España (1952), Juan II de Aragón (1953), El
gran sindicato remensa (1954), and El segle XV. Els Trastàmares
(1956) — , in addition to joint undertakings, such as "Estudios de
Historia Moderna" (1951-59), "Índice Histórico Español" (begun in 1953),
the Historia social y económica de España y América (1957-59) and
the series "Biografies catalanes" (the disguise he had to adopt, due to
censorship, in his attempt at the publication of a new history of
Catalonia), with the collaboration of a group of historians who, though
they never formed a school, given their theoretical indefinition, widely
shared the renovating impulse of Vicens. Fruit of the teaching of history
at the new faculty of Economic Sciences of Barcelona the Manual de
historia económica de España was published (1959), with the
collaboration of Jordi Nadal. This methodological dimension is not
sufficient to grasp the work of Vicens, who since 1952 proclaimed himself
continuator of the Catalan school of history that went from Pròsper de
Bofarull to Ferran Soldevila. It is along these lines that his concern for
contemporary historical studies in Catalonia must be situated, abandoned
until then, as he was convinced that they would contribute more
realistically to a recovery of Catalonia, obsessed as he was by the
disaster of 1939, with the string of defections. Testimony of this concern
are Els catalans en el segle XIX (1958), — which, in collaboration
with M. Llorens, would integrate Industrials i polítics de segle XIX
— and Notícia de Catalunya (1960). A sudden illness put an end to
his life when he was at the peak of activity. Behind him he left a
stimulus that completely transformed Catalan historiography and a work
that, including the articles, surpasses three hundred and fifty titles.
His works have been reprinted posthumously. Translated from: Fontana i Làzaro, Josep. "Vicens i Vives, Jaume" in: Gran enciclopèdia catalana, (2ª ed.). Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1986- . V. 24, p. 80. ISBN (oc.): 84-85194-81-0
Bibliography of Jaume Vicens Vives You can consult books, articles, and another materials written by Jaume Vicens Vives in the UdG Library Catalogue, an also, in the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia.
Acces to the Catalogue of the Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds The Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds catalogue is included in the UdG Library Catalogue In order to access this particular collection, it is necessary to follow the following instructions: Before carrying out a search, in the options "Search limits" and in the pull-down menu "Location", choose “B-Vell-R-Vicens V”
Manuscripts of the Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds ; 1930-1960 Visita virtual 60 documents, in 7 boxes, and 30 card boxes (2 m.l.). Contains documents, in catalan and spanish, produced during the teaching and research activities of Jaume Vicens Vives, in addition to personal papers. The original arrangement is kept, with five great units:
All users of this collection must sign a consultation form in which they promise to only use the documents for research purposes, to properly cite it if it is mentioned in another publication and to provide the UdG Library with a copy of any research work which has benefited from consultation of the collection. Consulting the documents does not give any authority regarding intellectual property rights of the contents, and any use in violation of the law regulating it use or of the rights associated with it will be the responsibility of the user. A bibliograhic record of the fonds can be found in the UdG Library Catalogue and a finding aid in print is available at the Library. The historian's family keeps his personal archive, the correspondence in it has been published in: Vicens Vives, Jaume Epistolari de Jaume Vicens. Girona: Cercle d'Estudis Històrics i Socials, 1994-1998. 2 v.; 21 cm. (Quaderns del Cercle; 10; 14). Bibliography: Muñoz i Lloret, Josep M. "Vicens i Vives, cap d'escola" in: Revista de Girona, núm. 191 (novembre-desembre 1998), pp. 64-67; Villanova, José Luis. "Jaume Vicens Vives i l'estudi de la geopolítica
Database of dedications Many of the volumes of the Jaume Vicens Vives Fonds have been dedicated by their respective authors. Theses dedications allow us to reconstruct the network of personal acquaintances of the philosopher. From the entries in the catalogue corresponding to each one of the books, it is possible to access these dedications, which can also be consulted independently in a database linked to those entries.
Centre de Recerca d'Història Rural (ILCC-Secció Jaume Vicens Vives) The Centre de Recerca d'Història Rural is a specialized research centre in the history of rural society. It is a section of the Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalana from the Universitat de Girona.
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