Henri Bresc

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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.{{r|mule|iesr}} From 1990 until 2008 he was a professor at Paris X Nanterre university,{{r|iesr}} and is director of its Centre d'Histoire Sociale et Culturelle de l'Occident.{{r|abdel|page=153|ocean}} He previously taught at the University of Nice.{{r|ocean}}

In 2002 Bresc received an honorary degree in letters from the University of Palermo.{{r|mule}}

Works

Among Bresc's many publications are:{{r|ocean}}

  • 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
  • [https://www.persee.fr/doc/befar_0257-4101_1986_mon_262_1 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 lang|it}}
  • 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

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Abdelwahab Meddeb, Benjamin Stora (2013). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wbg1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day]. Princeton; Woodstock: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|9780691151274}}.

[http://www.iesr.ephe.sorbonne.fr/index3597.html Bresc Henri] (in French). Paris: Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions. Accessed January 2016.

Antonella Mulé (5 March 2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20021230063908/http://www.ateneonline-aol.it/020305mule2.html 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.

[http://oceanides-association.org/wp-content/files_mf/bio_fr_besc.pdf Brec Henri] (in French). Océanides. Accessed January 2016.

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Category:1939 births

Category:20th-century French historians

Category:Historians of Sicily

Category:Living people

Category:French medievalists