David Abulafia#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2132 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
David Abulafia passed away January 24, 2026.
Positions Held
- 2017 Professor Emeritus of Mediterranean History
- 2000 Professor of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge
- 1974 - 2000 Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Levant trade
- Interaction of the three religions in medieval Spain and Sicily, including the problem of Jewish (and Muslim) 'servitude'
- Economic, social and political history of the Mediterranean lands
- Opening of the eastern and western Atlantic in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century
Honours and Awards
- 2023 King's Birthday Honours: Investiture in Oct 2023: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to scholarship"
- 2020 Wolfson History Prize for The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
- Appointed Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the President of Italy in recognition of his writing on Italian history, especially Sicilian history
- 2013 Awarded one of three inaugural British Academy Medals for his work on Mediterranean history
- 2010 British Academy Fellow
- 2011 Mountbatten Literary Award
