Henri Bresc
Born12 December 1939[1]
Cannes, France[1]
OccupationHistorian
NationalityFrench
SubjectMediaeval history

Henri Bresc (born 12 December 1939) is a French historian who specialises in the Mediaeval history of Sicily, and particularly in the inter-relation in the Mediterranean area between the three principal monotheistic religions.[2][3] From 1990 until 2008 he was a professor at Paris X Nanterre university,[3] and is director of its Centre d'Histoire Sociale et Culturelle de l'Occident.[4]: 153 [1] He previously taught at the University of Nice.[1]

In 2002 Bresc received an honorary degree in letters from the University of Palermo.[2]

Works

Among Bresc's many publications are:[1]

  • Livre et société en Sicile (1299-1499). Palermo: Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 1971
  • La Correspondance de Pierre Ameilh, archevêque de Naples, puis d'Embrun (1363-1369). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1972
  • Un monde méditerranéen. Économie et société en Sicile (1300-1450). Rome: École française de Rome, 1986
  • Idrîsî: La première géographie de l'Occident. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1999 (with Annliese Nef)
  • Una stagione in Sicilia: Nompar de Caumont a Isnello (1420), La Fardelliana, 6/1-2 (1991), pp. 5–25 (in Italian)
  • Arabes de langue, Juifs de religion. L'évolution du judaïsme sicilien dans l'environnement latin, XIIe -XVe siècles. Saint-Denis: Bouchène, 2001
    • Italian edition: Arabi per lingua, ebrei per religione. Messina: GEM, 2001

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Brec Henri (in French). Océanides. Accessed January 2016.
  2. 1 2 Antonella Mulé (5 March 2002). Lauree honoris causa a Henri Bresc e Max Pfister: Due attenti osservatori della Sicilia medioevale (in Italian). Università degli Studi di Palermo. Archived 30 December 2002.
  3. 1 2 Bresc Henri (in French). Paris: Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions. Accessed January 2016.
  4. ↑ Abdelwahab Meddeb, Benjamin Stora (2013). A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day. Princeton; Woodstock: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691151274.
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