Norman F. Cantor
Birth date: November 19, 1929
Died: September 18, 2004
Norman F. Cantor's Books
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor is a lecture-type book filled with some interesting facts and amusing side stories; it is easy to read at only 220 pages long and does not have a single footnote. While it might not be the in-depth analysis that med...
Forewarning: I am wholly biased against the Middle Ages and its history. I don't like bothering to wake up and study history prior to the exploration of the New World, and even then, I don't get my history motor running until about the 1650s. So I will try to remain objective to the book, but its su...
A collection of documents written between 300-1300, each with a contextual intro. Not a page-turner, but great resource for the time period.
(DNF) Yeah, I give up. too much info. I might have liked if I was reading it, but the book is 0ver 600 pages. I don't have the patience for this. This would be really good if you had to write a paper but I can't bring myself to listen to the rest of it. There are too many other books I'd rather read...
This is probably the most gossipy 'academic' book I have ever read. Cantor takes as his purpose the outlining of the birth and growth of medieval studies as an academic field and discussing how the main players in each of the phases of its development that he has identified shaped our perception of ...
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