| 词条 | David Abulafia |
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|name = David Abulafia | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|FRHistS|FBA|size=100}} |image = David Abulafia.jpg |image_size = |caption = Abulafia in 2010 |birth_name = David Samuel Harvard Abulafia |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|12|12}} |birth_place = Twickenham, Middlesex, England |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |nationality = British |ethnicity = |discipline = History |work_institutions = Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge |doctoral_advisor = J.H. Plumb |doctoral_students = |known_for = |prizes = |footnotes = |notable_works = A Human History of the Mediterranean (2011) |spouse = Anna Brechta Sapir |children = Two }} David Abulafia, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|FRHistS|FBA|size=100%|sep=,}} (born 12 December 1949) is an English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He has been Professor Emeritus of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1974; he later became the Papathomas Professorial Fellow. He retired in 2018. He was Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, 2003-5, and was elected a member of the governing Council of Cambridge University in 2008. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2013 he was awarded one of three inaugural British Academy Medals for his work on Mediterranean history. Early life and educationAbulafia was born at Twickenham, Middlesex, into a Sephardic Jewish family that left Spain for Galilee around 1492 and lived for many generations in Ottoman Tiberias. He was educated at St. Paul's School and King's College, Cambridge. Academic careerHe has published several books on Mediterranean history, beginning with his book The Two Italies in 1977; here he argued that as far back as the twelfth century northern Italy exploited the agricultural resources of the Italian south, and that this provided the essential basis for the further expansion of trade and industry in Tuscany, Genoa and Venice. He edited volume 5 of the New Cambridge Medieval History and the volume on Italy in the central Middle Ages in the Oxford Short History of Italy; he also edited an important collection of studies of the French invasion of Italy in 1494-5 as well as a book on The Mediterranean in History which has appeared in six languages. He has given lectures in many countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Finland, Norway, the United States, Japan, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. One of his most influential books is Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, first published in England in 1988 and reprinted many times in several Italian editions. Here he looks at an iconic figure from the Middle Ages from a new perspective, criticizing the views of the famous German historian Ernst Kantorowicz concerning Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, whom Abulafia sees as a conservative figure rather than as a genius born out of his time. He has been appointed Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the President of Italy in recognition of his writing on Italian history, especially Sicilian history, and he has also written about Spain, particularly the Balearic islands. He has shown an interest in the economic history of the Mediterranean, and in the meeting of the three Abrahamic faiths in the Mediterranean. Not confining himself to the Mediterranean, he has also written a much-praised book on the first encounters between western Europeans and the native societies of the Atlantic (the Canary islands, the Caribbean and Brazil) around 1492; this book is The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus (2008). In 2011 Penguin Books (and, in the U.S., Oxford University Press New York) published his A Human History of the Mediterranean, a substantial volume that sets out a different approach to Mediterranean history to that propounded by the famous French historian Fernand Braudel, and ranges in time from 22,000 BC to AD 2010. The book, which received the Mountbatten Literary Award from the Maritime Foundation,[1][2] rapidly became a bestseller in UK non-fiction and was widely acclaimed. It has been translated into Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Romanian and Portuguese, with further translations under contract. He is the chairman of Historians for Britain, an organisation that lobbies to leave the European Union. According to Abulafia, the process of European Integration is "a myth used to silence other visions of European community". He has written opinion pieces criticising the UK's membership in the European Union, accusing the idea of European unity of being based upon "historical determinism".[3] Personal lifeIn 1979, Abulafia married the then Anna Brechta Sapir.[4] They have two daughters.[5] Interviews
Notes1. ^Academia Europaea 2. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/01/great-sea-david-abulafia-review Nicholas Lezard review, Guardian] 3. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11435270/The-EU-is-in-thrall-to-a-historical-myth-of-European-unity.html David Abulafia: The EU is in thrall to a historical myth of European unity, Daily Telegraph, 26 February 2015.] 4. ^{{cite web|title=ABULAFIA, Prof. David Samuel Harvard|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U9779|website=Who's Who 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=2 February 2017|date=November 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=PROFILE: Prof traces his roots back to pre-Inquisition|url=http://www.jewishtelegraph.com/prof_91.html|website=Jewish Telegraph|accessdate=2 February 2017|date=2011}} References
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18 : 1949 births|Living people|English historians|English Jewish writers|English people of Spanish-Jewish descent|20th-century Sephardi Jews|21st-century Sephardi Jews|Alumni of King's College, Cambridge|Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Historians of the Crusades|Jewish historians|People from Twickenham|British medievalists|Historians of the Mediterranean|Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of history|Fellows of the British Academy|Recipients of the British Academy Medal|Fellows of the Royal Historical Society |
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