John Tolan

John Victor Tolan (/ˈtlæn/; born 1959) is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin worlds in the Middle Ages.

Biography

He was born in Milwaukee and received a BA in Classics from Yale (1981), an MA (1986) and a PhD (1990) in History from the University of Chicago, and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2001).

He has taught and lectured in universities in North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East and is currently Professor of History at the University of Nantes (France)[1] and director of a major European research program, "RELMIN: The legal status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries)".[2]

He works on the history of the rich web of relations in the medieval Mediterranean world, between Jews, Christians and Muslims.

In 2013, he was elected member of the Academia Europaea.

Published works

References

  1. University of Nantes site
  2. RELMIN site

External links

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