Defence date: 15 June 2001
Examining board: Prof. K.N. Chaudhuri (supervisor), formerly Vasco da Gama Chair & Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies London ; Prof. H. Van Der Wee, Prof. Emeritus Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ; Prof. D.S.A. Abulafia, Professor of Mediterranean History, Cambridge University ; Prof. D. Ramada Curto, Vasco da Gama Chair, E.U.I.