David Abulafia

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David Abulafia

David Samuel Harvard Abulafia, FBA (born December 12, 1949 in Twickenham , England ) is a British historian . He is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge .

Life

Abulafia comes from an old Sephardic family who moved to Galilee after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain around 1492 and lived there in Tiberias for many generations . His wife, Anna Sapir Abulafia, is a respected historian of Judeo-Christian relations. Abulafia received his education at St. Paul's School and King's College , Cambridge.

He has published several books on medieval history and edited Volume 5 of New Cambridge Medieval History . His book on the history of the Middle Ages has been translated into six languages, including: a. into German. He gave lectures in different countries, e.g. B. in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the USA, Japan, Israel, Egypt and Germany.

His most important book is Frederick II: a medieval emperor , which has also appeared in German and Italian translation, but is judged differently because of its critical view of Emperor Frederick II . Abulafia was named Commendatore dell ' Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana by the Italian President in 2003 in recognition of his works on Italian, especially Sicilian , history . He has also written about Spain, especially the Balearic Islands , and has dealt with the economic history of the Mediterranean and the encounter between the three Abrahamic religions in the Mediterranean .

He is the chairman of the Historians for Britain organization , which campaigns for Britain to leave the EU. Abulafia argues that the process of European integration is a myth that does not allow any other visions of coexistence in Europe . In addition, he speaks of the "distinctive character" of British history, which distinguishes Great Britain from the rest of Europe, based on the long, uninterrupted development since the Middle Ages.

Since 2002 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2010 he became a Fellow of the British Academy . In 2020 he received the Wolfson History Prize for The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Two Italies. Economic relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the northern communes. 1977.
  • Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean, 1100-1400. 1987.
  • Frederick II. A medieval emperor. London / New York 1988.
    • German translation: ruler between cultures. Friedrich II of Hohenstaufen. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88680-354-6 ( review ).
  • Spain and 1492: unity and uniformity under Ferdinand and Isabella. 1992.
  • Commerce and Conquest in the Mediterranean, 1100-1500. 1993.
  • A Mediterranean Emporium: the Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. 1994.
  • The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms, 1200-1500. The Struggle for Dominion. Routledge 1997.
  • Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious and Political, 1100-1550. Routledge 2000.
  • The Great Sea. A Human History of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press 2011; Penguin Paperback 2014 ( ISBN 978-0141977164 )
  • The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans . Allen Lane 2019, ISBN 978-1846145087

Editorships

  • with M. Rubin and M. Franklin: Church and City, 1000-1500. Studies in honor of Christopher Brooke. 1992.
  • The French descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-95. Antecedents and effects. 1995.
  • with Blanca Garí de Aguilera: En las costas del Mediterráneo occidental. Las ciudades de la Peninsula Ibérica y del reino de Mallorca y the comercio mediterráneo en la Edad Media. Barcelona 1997, ISBN 8428210837 .
  • The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. 5, c. 1198-1300. 1999.
  • with N. Berend: Medieval Frontiers: concepts and practices. 2002.
  • The Mediterranean in History. 2003.
  • Italy in the Central Middle Ages. 2004.

literature

  • Who's Who 2006
  • Debrett's People of Today 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the side of the Quirinal. Since 2011 the order has been called Ordine della Stella d'Italia .
  2. ↑ David Abulafia: The EU is in thrall to a historical myth of European unity , Daily Telegraph , February 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.historytoday.com/david-abulafia/britain-apart-or-part-europe
  4. ↑ Directory of members: David Abulafia. Academia Europaea, accessed October 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Fellows: David Abulafia. British Academy, accessed October 24, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Wolfson History Prize 2020 Winner. In: wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  7. ^ Oxford University Press. 'First Paperback Edition' 1992, ISBN 0195080408 . 3rd edition 2001.
  8. ^ First paperback edition 1997 (Pearson Education).
  9. ^ Review by Sigrid Brinkmann in Deutschlandfunk (DLF) Büchermarkt from April 10, 2014: Kulturgeschichte. Life on the Mediterranean


personal data
SURNAME Abulafia, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abulafia, David Samuel Harvard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Twickenham