Norman F. Cantor (1929–2004)

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1. Norman F. Cantor

   Author of In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, Inventing the Middle Ages

2. Frances Gies

   Author of Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel; Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages, The Knight in History, A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England

3. Joseph Gies

   Author of Life in a Medieval Castle, Life in a Medieval City, Women in the Middle Ages

4. Marc Bloch

   Author of The Historian's Craft, Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence, Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization

5. William H. McNeill

   Author of Plagues and Peoples, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

6. Simon Winchester

   Author of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, A Crack in the Edge of the World

7. R. W. Southern

   Author of The Making of the Middle Ages, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

8. Alison Weir

   Author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses

9. Robert Bartlett

   Author of The Making of Europe, England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225, Medieval Panorama

10. halejohn-2

    Author of Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

11. Thomas Cahill

    Author of The Gifts of the Jews, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Mysteries of the Middle Ages

12. John Kelly

    Author of The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

13. Johan Huizinga

    Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages, Homo Ludens

14. William Manchester

    Author of A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

15. John M. Barry

    Author of The Great Influenza

16. Philip Ziegler

    Author of The Black Death

17. Georges Duby

    Author of A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World, William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry

18. Dumas Malone

    Author of The sage of Monticello, Jefferson and the Rights of Man : Jefferson and His Time Volume Two, Jefferson the President: Second Term 1805 - 1809 - Volume V (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 5)

19. Donald Kagan

    Author of The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

20. Charles Freeman

    Author of The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, Egypt, Greece and Rome, The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World