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Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies

 

David Abulafia’s work aims in understanding of Mediterranean history as a whole, both geographically and chronologically, and combines political with economic analysis across this vast area and through the centuries. The results of this project have been the monographs based on detailed archival research on the commercial history of Italian and Catalan trade, complemented with a 360 degree grasp of the Mediterranean economy.

In particular, "The Great Sea", a history of the Mediterranean from 22,000 BC to 2010 AD, depicts the middle sea as a vast crossroads, or interchange of culture and people, a space across which humans have travelled and exchanged goods and ideas across the centuries.