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Denys Lombard died on January 1998 at the age of 59. He was erudite and also a polyglot. These talents show up particularly well in his three-volume history of Indonesia which introduced a Braudelian approach to the area. Looking at the Java Sea as the Mediterranean gave him a framework of breadth to display the enormous variety of cultures, mentalites, objects, and practices of the archipelago as well as their perduring quality. It is, perhaps, his insistence on the historical as that which endures which marks also his less extensive work. The value of the record was indisputable for him, and the energy he put into establishing it is shown by his enormous bibliography.
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