"The Great Sea โ A Human History of the Mediterranean" (2011)
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another.
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R.I.P., David #Abulafia [ยฐDec. 12, 1949 โ Jan. 24, 2026]๐ฏ๏ธ๐๐น
#MediterraneanHistory #TheGreatSea #TheBoundlessSea #MedievalHistory #FrederickIIAMedievalEmperor #UniversityofCambridge #2020WolfsonHistoryPrize #2020MountbattenAward #AnnaBrechtaSapir #DavidSamuelHarvardAbulafia #DavidAbulafia
๐ Si Stefan Zweig ensalzรณ la "identidad europea" frente a los sentimientos nacionalistas, David Abulafia hizo lo propio acuรฑando el concepto de "identidad mediterrรกnea".
Hoy a muerto el profesor Abulafia pero su legado le sobrevive.
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Moving and instructive to hear #AntonyMolho talking abt the English version of his #Holocaust book, โCourage and Compassion: A Jewish Boyhood in Nazi Greeceโ (Berghahn, 2024) with #DavidAbulafia and #ParisChronakis at
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social. #neverforget #neveragain #Salonika