Norman Cantor

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 Illinois At Chicago for two years. He finished his career at New York University , where he was emeritus professor of history, sociology and comparative literature, and retired in 1999.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANTOR'S PUBLICATIONS

''The Medieval World 300-1500'' ('Norman Cantor, Civilizaton of the Middle Ages, p.2')

''The Civilization of the Middle Ages'' (a revision of his earlier ''Medieval History: the Life and Death of a Civilization'' 1963)

''How to Study History'' (with Richard I. Schneider), 1967, a textbook that lays out fundamental methods and principles, including the uses of primary and secondary sources.

''Inventing the Middle Ages : The Lives, Works and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century,'' 1991, a Historiography of views of the Middle Ages, in twenty ''vitae'' of seminal historians and other shapers of contemporary perception, including C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien : "Any bright American college sophomore who today takes a good survey course on medieval history has a better understanding of the components of the medieval world than anyone who wrote before 1895" wrote Cantor.

''The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era,'' 2004 (The subject is John Of Gaunt )

Cantor published a memoir in 2002, ''Inventing Norman Cantor: Memoirs of a Medievalist.''

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