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
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