Research
Professor David Abulafia is the author of The Two Italies. Economic relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the northern communes (1977), Spain and 1492: unity and uniformity under Ferdinand and Isabella (1992), Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious and Political, 1100-1550 (2000) and The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean (2011). His research interests are in the economic, social and political history of the Mediterranean lands at all periods but especially in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Also, more generally, the interaction of the three religions in medieval Spain and Sicily, including the problem of Jewish and Muslim ‘servitude’. Professor Abulafia offers a Part II Specified Paper 'The Jewish Presence in Medieval Society' with Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia and, most recently, in relation to Jewish studies, he supervised doctoral research on the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Portugal.
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