Kinoshita Sharon - A Companion to Mediterranean History

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David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His numerous books include The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (London and New York: Allen Lane and Oxford University Press, 2011), and The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008).

Fred Astren (PhD Berkeley) is Professor of Jewish Studies and a member of the Faculty in Middle East and Islamic Studies at San Francisco State University. He has published Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), and works on early medieval Jewish history in the Mediterranean and in the orbit of Islam.

Clifford R. Backman has taught at Boston University since 1989. He has published three books: The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Worlds of Medieval Europe (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), and The Cultures of the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). He is currently at work on a study of the idea of tolerance in medieval Christianity, Islam and Judaism.