Norman Cantor

Norman F. Cantor (born in Winnipeg, Canada on November 19, 1929, died in Miami, Florida, United States on September 18, 2004) was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. His sound scholarship was embodied in an accessible style with narrative drive, which made his major textbook, The Civilization of the Middle Ages the most widely-read overview of medieval history.

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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.

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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.

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