18 September 2004(2004-09-18) (aged 74) Miami, Florida, U.S.
Occupation
Historian, essayist, teacher
Nationality
Canadian
Alma mater
University of Manitoba (BA) Oriel College, Oxford Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Spouse
Mindy Mozart (m. 1957)
Children
Howard Cantor, Judy Cantor
Norman Frank Cantor (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004)[1] was a Canadian-American medievalist. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. He estimated that his textbook The Civilization of the Middle Ages, first published in 1963, had a million copies in circulation.[2]
^Saxon, Wolfgang (September 21, 2004). "Norman F. Cantor, 74, a Noted Medievalist, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
^Verduin, Kathleen (October 2, 2003). "Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Medievalist" (PDF). Perspicuitas. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
Norman Frank Cantor (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004) was a Canadian-American medievalist. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative...
letter written for the benefit of his subjects. Medieval historian NormanCantor called him "the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history". He is popularly...
the treacle (i.e. healing) well at Binsey was a place of pilgrimage. NormanCantor observes that the remedy's supposed effect followed the homeopathic...
Cantor, Norman F. (1993). The Civilization of the Middle Ages. New York: HarperCollins. p. 309. ISBN 0060170336. Retrieved 24 September 2016. Cantor (1969)...
Mexico Press. p. 21. ISBN 0-8263-2871-7. NormanCantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1994) p. 480. Cantor, p. 594. Leonardo Bruni, James Hankins...
the patron saint of Germania, known as the "Apostle to the Germans". NormanCantor notes the three roles Boniface played that made him "one of the truly...
was generous to the point of extravagance. In an alternative view, NormanCantor has described Edward as an "avaricious and sadistic thug". From what...
Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States...
battle of Tours in the macrohistorical dates of the Roman era. Historian NormanCantor who specialized in the medieval period, teaching and writing at Columbia...
JSTOR 25011853. Cantor, Norman F. (1958). Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in England, 1089–1135. Princeton University Press. Cantor, Norman F. (1993)...
www.wyohistory.org. Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages 1993:412f, discusses the institution of the bailli. Cantor 1993, loc. cit.. "Code...
although they already changed the oral chant transmission of Frankish cantors entirely before musical notation was used systematically in fully notated...
generally praised Henry. The Canadian-American historian and medievalist NormanCantor called Henry a "remarkable man, undoubtedly the greatest of all Medieval...
(1925–2016), geotechnical engineer Irving Abella CM (1940– ), historian NormanCantor (1929–2004), historian Natalie Zemon Davis CC (1928– ), historian David...
avoided as after death the offices fell back upon the crown. Historian NormanCantor concludes: "Under these conditions clerical election became a mere formality...
Bernard Bailyn Daniel J. Boorstin NormanCantor Ariel Durant Stanley Elkins Richard Ettinghausen, art historian Norman Finkelstein, author and historian...
Norman Milton Lear (July 27, 1922 – December 5, 2023) was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created, or developed over 100 shows...
communities in Spain were noted even earlier.[citation needed] The historian NormanCantor and other 20th-century scholars dispute the tradition that the Middle...
in the book Inventing the Middle Ages (1991) by the medievalist NormanCantor. Cantor suggested that, but for his Jewish heritage, the young Kantorowicz...
of the Modern Era, a 2005 nonfiction book written by the medievalist NormanCantor The Last Knight, a 2000 graphic novel Will Eisner The Last Knight, a...
around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV. In a similar vein, historian NormanCantor, in In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made...
without threat or distraction, on the Normans to the south. It had achieved its peace, argues NormanCantor, by allowing local national custom and practice...
Benton, Teofilo Ruiz, William Chester Jordan, and Richard W. Kaeuper. Norman F. Cantor often highlighted his status as a student of Strayer's; in spite of...
character strikes us as an ambiguous and enigmatic one," historian NormanCantor observed. "On the one hand he was an able and determined administrator...
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