David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is a British historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
His published works include Frederick II, The Mediterranean in History, Italy in the central Middle Ages, The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus and The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean.
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. David Abulafia's "The Great Sea" is the first complete history of the Mediterranean from the erection of the mysterious temples on Malta around 3500 BC to the recent reinvention of the Mediterranean's shores as a tourist destination. Part of the argument of Abulafia's book is that the great port cities - Alexandria, Trieste and Salonika and many others - prospered in part because of their ability to allow many different people, religions and identities to co-exist within sometimes very confined spaces. He also brilliantly populates his history with identifiable individuals whose lives illustrate with great immediacy the wider developments he is describing. "The Great Sea" ranges stupendously across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Venice to Alexandria. Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the teeming human activity it has sustained, the book emphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and political. Anyone who reads it will leave it with their understanding of those societies and their histories enormously enriched.
地中海很神奇。它连接了欧亚非三大洲,孕育了拉丁文明、爱琴海文明和阿拉伯文明,见证了三大宗教的产生与发展。作为人类航海活动最早的、最活跃的场所之一,它在地质构造上的形成时间之古老,超乎想象。 大卫‧阿布拉菲亚在他的著作《伟大的海:地中海人类史》里说道:“在人...
评分1.图片列表页4行16:“阿克罗提利壁画”应为“阿科罗提利壁画”。 2.图片列表页5:“前650年”应为“前600年”。 3.导言页14行3:“亚得里亚海”应为“大西洋”。 导言页14行9:“法国”应为“3个国家”。 4.导言页15行21:“由于”应删去。 5.页8行11:“勒万佐”应为“莱万佐...
评分 评分 评分有一个四分钟看懂世界史的视频,以时间为序,介绍各国、各民族的版图更替。倘将视线集中于地中海沿岸,颇有目不暇接之感。此地离人类文明的发源地不远,又居微妙的联结位置,有“你方唱罢我登场”的紧凑感,也不由让人重新审视历来人们对它的称呼:“我们的海”(罗马人)、“...
杂但还算有序。内容广泛,需要有一定的历史背景,作者很少会对一些历史事件作出阐述。
评分中级读物
评分杂但还算有序。内容广泛,需要有一定的历史背景,作者很少会对一些历史事件作出阐述。
评分中级读物
评分杂但还算有序。内容广泛,需要有一定的历史背景,作者很少会对一些历史事件作出阐述。
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