Norman Cantor (1929–2004)
Author of In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
About the Author
Norman F. Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University.
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Works by Norman Cantor
The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History (1964) 1,384 copies
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (1991) 789 copies
The Medieval Reader: First-hand Accounts of the Middle Ages Including Letters, Essays, State and Church Documents,… (1994) 521 copies
Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire (2003) 435 copies
Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1648 (Ideas & institutions in western civilization) (1963) 139 copies
The Structure of European History: Volume III Renaissance, Reformation, and Absolutism 1450-1650 (1972) 24 copies
The structure of European history 24 copies
The Modern World: 1848 to the Present/Ideas and Institutions in Western Civilization (1963) 13 copies
The Structure of European History: Volume VI. Twentieth Century: 1914 To the Present (1967) 12 copies
The Structure of European History: Volume IV: The Fulfillment and Collapse of the Old Regime 1650 - 1815 (1967) 9 copies
The Structure of European History: Volume V: The Making of the Modern World 1815 - 1914 (1967) 6 copies
Colloquium, No. 2, 1964 1 copy
A special issue on "Voice" 1 copy
After We Die 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Cantor, Norman
- Legal name
- Cantor, Norman Frank
- Birthdate
- 1929-11-19
- Date of death
- 2004-09-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Place of death
- Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- Heart Failure
- Places of residence
- Miami, Florida, USA (death)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Education
- University of Manitoba (B.A. ∙ 1951)
Princeton University (MA ∙ 1953)
Oriel College, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar)
Princeton University (PhD - 1957) - Occupations
- medievalist
historian
writer
author
professor - Organizations
- Princeton University
Columbia University
Brandeis University
Binghamton University
University of Illinois at Chicago
New York University - Awards and honors
- Rhodes Scholar
- Agent
- Alexander C. Hoyt
- Short biography
- Norman Frank Cantor was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. He received his bachelor's degree at the University of Manitoba and his master's degree from Princeton. He spent a year at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then earned his doctorate from Princeton in 1957. After teaching at Princeton, Prof. Cantor moved to Columbia University from 1960 to 1966; Brandeis University until 1970; SUNY Binghamton until 1976; and the University of Illinois at Chicago for two years. He went on to New York University, where he was professor of history, sociology and comparative literature. After a brief stint as Fulbright Professor at Tel Aviv University, he began to devote himself writing full-time.
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