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Norman Cantor
Norman Cantor (born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1930, died in Miami, Florida, United States on September 18, 2004) was a historian who specialized in the medieval period.
Cantor studied history at the University of Manitoba and received his B.A. in 1951. He went on to get his master's degree in 1953 from Princeton University. Cantor spent a year as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and received his doctorate from Princeton in 1957.
After teaching at Princeton, Cantor moved to Columbia University from 1960 to 1966. He was a Leff professor at Brandeis University until 1970 and then was at SUNY Binghamton until 1976, when he took a position at University of Chicago for two years. He finished his career at New York University.
Bibliography
- Alexander the Great
- The Civilization of the Middle Ages
- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
- Inventing Norman Cantor: Memoirs of a Medievalist
- Inventing the Middle Ages
- The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
- Medieval Lives
- Medieval Society, 400-1450
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