David Abulafia

David Samuel Harvard Abulafia  (12 December 1949 – 24 January 2026) was an English historian. He was known for his written works about Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge. He became a professor at the age of 50. He retired in 2017. He was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academia Europaea.

Abulafia died on 24 January 2026 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire at the age of 76.

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