Holberg Prize Symposium 2010: Mediterranean History as Global History

David Abulafia's lecture on the Holberg Prize Symposium 2010. David Abulafia is an English historian. He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1974. David Abulafia has published extensively on Mediterranean history and has recently completed The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean, to be published by Penguin. His most influential book is Frederick II: a medieval emperor (1988). He has been appointed "Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana" by the President of Italy in recognition of his writing on Italian history, and he has also written about the first encounters between western Europeans and the native peoples of the Atlantic (The Discovery of Mankind, 2008).