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According to Wikipedia, David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is an English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge, rising to become a professor at the age of 50. He retired in 2017 as Professor Emeritus of Mediterranean History. He is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 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 visiting Beacon Professor at the new University of Gibraltar, where he also serves on the Academic Board. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe .

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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (2011) (208)
Levant Trade in the Later Middle Ages. (1985) (170)
The Two Italies: Economic Relations Between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes (1977) (71)
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus (2008) (69)
Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices (2002) (63)
The Economic Expansion of the Byzantine Empire, 900-1200. (1992) (62)
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor (1988) (61)
The New Cambridge Medieval History (2015) (57)
The Mediterranean in History (2003) (57)
Ancona, Byzantium and the Adriatic, 1155–1173 (1984) (47)
Italy in the central Middle Ages, 1000-1300 (2004) (38)
The King and the Jews—the Jews in the Ruler’s Service (2004) (36)
Asia, Africa and the Trade of Medieval Europe (1987) (26)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. (1995) (22)
Southern Italy and the Florentine Economy, 1265–1370 (1981) (21)
Pisan commercial colonies and consulates in twelfth-century Sicily (1978) (21)
Christian merchants in the Almohad cities (2010) (20)
The Impact of the Orient: Economic Interactions between East and West in the Medieval Mediterranean (1997) (19)
A Mediterranean emporium : the Catalan kingdom of Majorca (1994) (18)
The Crown and the Economy under Roger II and His Successors (1983) (17)
Commerce and communications (1999) (17)
The Celtic lands of the British Isles (1999) (16)
Church and city, 1000-1500 : essays in honour of Christopher Brooke (1994) (15)
The western Mediterranean kingdoms, 1200-1500: the struggle for dominion (1997) (13)
Commerce and Conquest in the Mediterranean, 1100–1500 (1993) (11)
KANTOROWICZ AND FREDERICK II (1977) (11)
Catalan Merchants and the Western Mediterranean, 1236-1300: Studies in the Notarial Acts of Barcelona and Sicily (1985) (10)
THREE. The End of Muslim Sicily (1990) (10)
The French descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-95 : antecedents and effects (1996) (10)
The servitude of jews and muslims in the medieval Mediterranean : origins and diffusion (2000) (9)
4. MEDITERRANEAN HISTORY AS GLOBAL HISTORY (2011) (9)
Sugar in Spain (2008) (8)
The religious Orders (1999) (7)
The rise of Aragon-Catalonia (1999) (6)
The reputation of a Norman king in Angevin Naples (1979) (6)
The Merchants of Messina: Levant Trade and Domestic Economy (1986) (6)
Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean, 1100-1400 (1987) (6)
A Mediterranean emporium (1994) (6)
Henry, Count of Malta, and his Mediterranean activities, 1203-1230 (1975) (6)
The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms: The Struggle for Dominion, 1200-1500 (1997) (5)
Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100–1550 (2000) (5)
(a): The Scandinavian kingdoms (1999) (5)
The aragonese Kingdom of Albania: An Angevin project of 1311–1316 (1995) (4)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The constitutional problem (1994) (4)
(a): The central European kingdoms (1999) (4)
Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of The Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500 . By Olivia Remie Constable · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxiv + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, index, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-43075-5. (1995) (4)
Genoa and the Security of the Seas: the Mission of Babilano Lomellino in 1350 (1977) (3)
'Machiavelli, italianità and the French invasion of 1494' (1995) (3)
(b): The Maghrib (1999) (3)
Historians and race (1992) (3)
The problem of the Kingdom of Majorca (1229/1276–1343) 1. Political identity (1990) (3)
Corneto-Tarquinia and the Italian Mercantile Republics: The Earliest Evidence (1974) (2)
The Two Italies: Preface (1977) (2)
Charles of Anjou reassessed (2000) (2)
Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke (1995) (2)
(b): The military Orders in the Baltic (1999) (2)
(b): The crusader states (1999) (2)
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (2019) (2)
(b): Urban society (1999) (2)
Islam in the history of early Europe (1996) (2)
(c): The Italian South (2000) (2)
(a): The Latin empire of Constantinople and the Frankish states in Greece (1999) (1)
Where myth and archaeology meet: Discovering the Gorgon Medusa’s Lair (2021) (1)
(c): Rural society (1999) (1)
Aragon versus Turkey—Tirant lo Blanc and Mehmed the Conqueror (2012) (1)
The Problem of the kingdom of Majorca (1229/76–1343) 2. Economic identity (1991) (1)
Note from the General Editor (2017) (1)
The Last Muslims in Italy (2014) (1)
The Abrahamic Religions in the Mediterranean (2015) (1)
(a): The thirteenth-century crusades in the Mediterranean (1999) (1)
Islands in Context, A.D. 400–1000 (2019) (1)
Neolithic Meets Medieval: First Encounters in the Canary Islands (2017) (1)
The Coming of the Gypsies: Cities, Princes and Nomads (2010) (1)
The kingdom of Sicily under the Hohenstaufen and Angevins (1999) (1)
(c): The Nasrid kingdom of Granada (1999) (0)
Passion and piety (1993) (0)
Comparing Two Italies. Civic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of Sicily (2020) (0)
The Near West: Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age By Allen James Fromherz (2018) (0)
The Catalans and the Mediterranean (2017) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Commerce in the age of the Vespers (1994) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Montpellier inquest, 1338–1339 (1994) (0)
A settled frontier: the Catalan kingdom of Majorca (1992) (0)
Piombino between the great powers in the late fifteenth century (2011) (0)
THE BOUNDLESS SEA (2022) (0)
Harvey J. Hames,Like Angels on Jacob's Ladder: Abraham Abulafia, the Franciscans, and Joachimism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 171. $50. ISBN: 9780791472712. (2012) (0)
(b): Byzantium in exile (1999) (0)
Lettuce seeds from Naples (1994) (0)
The maritime alliance of 1156 and its aftermath (1977) (0)
The Two Italies: The Sources (1977) (0)
The Church in the Thirteenth Century (1999) (0)
The Greek and the unGreek, 1830–1920 (2011) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The kingdom and its historians (1994) (0)
Sea Peoples and Land Peoples, 1250 BC–1100 BC (2011) (0)
The Two Italies: Bibliography (1977) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: One kingdom, three religions: the Jews (1994) (0)
Jews, Muslims, Pagans, and America (2021) (0)
The Two Italies: An age of peaceful competition, 1179–89 (1977) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Contents (1994) (0)
The Two Italies: The first phase of alliances, 1116–54 (1977) (0)
Shorter notice. Friedrich II. Tagung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom.... Esch and Kamp (ed.) (1999) (0)
Books Received (1989) (0)
The Other Side of Empire. Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain (2021) (0)
Merchants, Mercenaries and Missionaries, 1220–1300 (2011) (0)
Oceanic histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 328. 1 figure, 11 maps. Hardback £76.99, ISBN: 978-1-108-42318-2; paperback £19.99, ISBN: 978-1-108-43482-9. (2018) (0)
(b): Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria (1999) (0)
Books Received (1977) (0)
Map 5 Germany and the western empire (1999) (0)
Brief Notices (2002) (0)
The Two Italies: Crisis and recovery, 1162–79 (1977) (0)
The Jews of Sicily and Southern Italy: Economic Activity (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown, by Céline Dauverd (2015) (0)
Global & Imperial History Research Seminar (2014) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Towards economic integration: the early fourteenth century (1994) (0)
What is Global History?, by Sebastian ConradThe Prospect of Global History, ed. James Belich, John Darwin, Margaret Frenz and Chris Wickham (2018) (0)
Venice and the Kingdom of Naples in the Last Years of Robert the Wise 1332–1343 (1980) (0)
The Two Italies: Quid plura? 1191–5 (1977) (0)
The Two Italies: Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Norman Communes. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Vol. IX. (1978) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic (1994) (0)
Barcelona and beyond. The disputation of 1263 and its aftermath (review) (2013) (0)
Ferdinand the Catholic (2014) (0)
The last phase of alliances, 1189–91 (1977) (0)
The Mouse and the Elephant: Relations between the Kings of Naples and the Lordship of Piombino in the Fifteenth Century (2016) (0)
Islam in the History of Early Europe (1996) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Conclusion (1994) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Balearic setting (1994) (0)
The discovery of manking: Atlantic encounters in the age of Colombus (2008) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Note on the coinage of the kingdom of Majorca (1994) (0)
19 What Happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain (2014) (0)
Lectures 10 : program 9 : Mediterranean history (2008) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Bibliography (1994) (0)
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe (2022) (0)
Not quite so Serenissima (1993) (0)
The trade of the autonomous kingdom in its last two decades (1994) (0)
Medieval Germany, 500-1300: A Political Interpretation.Benjamin Arnold (1999) (0)
Signorial Power in Aragonese Southern Italy (2010) (0)
Bridges across the seas (2018) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The rise of the trade of Mallorca City (1994) (0)
Historiographical essays institutes and individuals: some medieval historians of the twentieth century (1992) (0)
INDEX TO VOLUMES 46-50 2007–2011 ARTICLES (2011) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The western Mediterranean (1994) (0)
Book review. The Italian city-state. From commune to Signoria. Philip Jones (1998) (0)
The Two Italies: Conclusion (1977) (0)
Serrata – Closing, 1291–1350 (2011) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Note on nomenclature (1994) (0)
Books in brief (2011) (0)
Brief Notices (1994) (0)
Primary sources and secondary works arranged by chapter (1999) (0)
Ottoman Exit, 1900–1918 (2011) (0)
A Kingdom of Stargazers: Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon, by Michael A. Ryan (2013) (0)
The structure of Genoese trade with Sicily, 1155–64 (1977) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: List of the kings of Majorca, 1229–1343 (1994) (0)
Minorities in Islam: reflections on a new book by Xavier de Planhol (1999) (0)
‘The Profit That God Shall Give’, 1100–1200 (2011) (0)
Castile, Portugal and Navarre (1999) (0)
One kingdom, three religions: the Muslims (1994) (0)
Reviews of Books:Knights of the Cloister: Templars and Hospitallers in Central-Southern Occitania c.1100-c.1300 Dominic Selwood (2002) (0)
A Minority within a Minority: Reflections on Shephardi Identity (2000) (0)
(a): The rise of the Mamluks (1999) (0)
The Great Sea-change, 1000–1100 (2011) (0)
Book Review: Roger of Lauria (c.1250–1305): ‘Admiral of Admirals’ (2020) (0)
Patricia Skinner, Medieval Amalfi and its diaspora, c. 800–1250 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xix+280. ISBN 9780199646272 Hbk. £65) (2015) (0)
Brief Notices (1988) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: Mallorca and Sardinia, 1267–1343 (1994) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The kingdom of Majorca (1994) (0)
Servants, Slaves or Subjects? Jews, Muslims and Indians as Royal Property (2018) (0)
‘Our Sea’, 146 BC–AD 150 (2011) (0)
The Last Mediterranean, 1950–2010 (2011) (0)
Paul A. van Dyke, Merchants of Canton and Macao: success and failure in eighteenth-century Chinese trade (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. Pp. xlviii+443. 80 plates. 10 tabs. ISBN 9789888139323 Hbk. £59): Book Review (2018) (0)
A note on the tables (1977) (0)
Ferdinand the Catholic: King and Consort (2014) (0)
Medieval and Early Modern (1996) (0)
Conclusion: Crossing the Sea (2011) (0)
A Fragmented Mediterranean, 1945–1990 (2011) (0)
Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
Knights of the Cloister (Book) (2002) (0)
The structure of trade in the late Norman period (1977) (0)
Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1998) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The reshaping of Mallorca's economy, 1343–1500 (1994) (0)
Brian A. Catlos, Sharon Kinoshita (eds.), Can We Talk Mediterranean? Conversations on an Emerging Field in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Springer – Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke – Cham 2017 (Mediterranean Perspectives). (2020) (0)
A Companion to Medieval Palermo: The History of a Mediterranean City from 600 to 1500, ed. Annliese Nef (2015) (0)
Europe and the Islamic World: A History, by John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein and Henry Laurens (2014) (0)

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