Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Publisher: New York: Viking Press, 1999. 1st ed. 1st printing. Hardcover. 464 pages. Publication Date: 1999. Binding: Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Edition: 1st Edition. About this title. An encyclopedic resource features full-color illustrations and maps covering all aspects of the Middle Ages, from Europe to the Far East and exploring the lives of the great people of the age, including Dante and Chaucer. BOMC. As greater numbers of naysayers look forward to the collapse of civilization, perhaps it's best to see what happened last time. It turns out the Dark Ages weren't so bad--in fact, after reading through The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages , you might find yourself pining for the good old days before the Renaissance. Historian Norman F. Cantor has assembled a crack team of experts to unleash their copious knowledge on our modern world; better still, Viking Press has enlisted excellent designers to present the information efficiently and even beautifully. You'll find yourself irresistibly drawn from one entry to the next (there are over 600, so leave time for browsing) as the story of the Council of Nicaea leads on to explorations of medieval Christianity and much more. Twenty longer essays on general topics provide the foundation for the rest of the Encyclopedia and make great reading on their own, but the meat of the book is in the details. Lavishly illustrated in both color and black-and- white, including artworks, maps, and timetables, this reference work looks as good on the shelf as it does on the coffee table. --Rob Lightner. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Contact info: Schroeder's Book Haven, 104 Michigan Avenue, League City, TX 77573-2400. 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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Cantor graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1951, after which he moved to the U.S. He received a master's degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University and became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He began his teaching career at Princeton in 1955, and after appointments at Johns Hopkins and Columbia became professor at Brandeis University in the mid-1960s. He served as vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois. In 1978 he joined New York University as dean of the College of Arts and Science faculty, until 1981. He taught there as a professor emeritus in history, sociology, and comparative literature until his retirement in 1999. He was also a Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow at Princeton University and a Fulbright Professor at Tel Aviv University. He served as editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages (1999). Cantor published Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in England, 1089–1135 (1958). In 1963 he published Medieval History: the Life and Death of a Civilization, a general introduction to the Middle Ages that was widely used as a college textbook and was also a main selection of the History Book Club for 19 years. In print for 28 years, it was updated and expanded by Cantor in 1991 and reissued as The Civilization of the Middle Ages . It is considered one of the most authoritative introductions to medieval studies. Other books by Cantor include How to Study History (1967); The English: A History of Politics and Society to 1760 (1967); Renaissance Thought: Dante & Machiavelli (1969); Western Civilization: Its Genesis and Destiny (1970); The Age of Protest (1971); Perspectives on the European Past: Conversations with Historians (1971); The Medieval Reader (1974); Inventing the Middle Ages (1991); Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages (1995); The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews (1995); The Jewish Experience: An Illustrated History of Jewish Culture and Society Including Short Stories, Essays, Novels, Biographies, Memoirs and Other First-Person Accounts (1996); The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (1997); In the Wake of the Plague (2001); Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Mediaevalist (2002); The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (2004); Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire (2004); Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (Eminent Lives) (2005). 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In this full-color, landmark reference, Cantor and a team of scholars and experts explore the entire medieval world -- from the British Isles to the Far East, and the great figures -- Dante, Chaucer, Aquinas, who defined the period. Read More. From the world's most distinguished medievalist comes a lively and vivid account of the lords and ladies, saints and scholars, kings and peasants who shaped the history and culture of one of the richest and most misunderstood periods in history. In this full-color, landmark reference, Cantor and a team of scholars and experts explore the entire medieval world -- from the British Isles to the Far East, and the great figures -- Dante, Chaucer, Aquinas, who defined the period. Read Less. All Copies ( 71 ) Softcover ( 3 ) Hardcover ( 65 ) Choose Edition ( 1 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 1999, Viking Books. Edition: 1999, Viking Books Hardcover, Very Good Details: ISBN: 0670100110 ISBN-13: 9780670100118 Pages: 448 Publisher: Viking Books Published: 06/1999 Language: English Alibris ID: 16636079403 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Very good. Shows some signs of wear from usage. Is no longer bright/shinny. Edge wear from storage and shelving. ► Contact This Seller. 1999, Viking Books. Edition: 1999, Viking Books Hardcover, Good Details: ISBN: 0670100110 ISBN-13: 9780670100118 Pages: 448 Publisher: Viking Books Published: 06/1999 Language: English Alibris ID: 16677086562 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. 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Pages are unmarked. 1999, Viking Books. Brownstown, MI, USA. Edition: 1999, Viking Books Hardcover, Good Details: ISBN: 0670100110 ISBN-13: 9780670100118 Pages: 448 Publisher: Viking Books Published: 1999 Language: English Alibris ID: 16669700002 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1999, Viking Books. baltimore, MD, USA. Edition: 1999, Viking Books Hardcover, Very Good Details: ISBN: 0670100110 ISBN-13: 9780670100118 Pages: 448 Publisher: Viking Books Published: 1999 Language: English Alibris ID: 16584224442 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Norman F. Cantor. Norman Frank Cantor (19 November 1929 – 18 September 2004) [ 1 ] was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. His textbook The Civilization of the Middle Ages , first published in 1963, remains an all-time bestseller in the field. Contents. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Cantor received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1951. He moved to the United States to obtain an M.A. degree (1953) from Princeton University, then spent a year as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He returned to Princeton and received his Ph.D. in 1957 under the direction of eminent medievalist Joseph R. Strayer. He also began his teaching career at Princeton. After teaching at Princeton, Cantor became a professor at 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 then went on to New York University, where he served as Dean of NYU's College of Arts & Sciences, as well as a professor of history, sociology and comparative literature. After a brief stint as Fulbright Professor at the Tel Aviv University History Department (1987–88), he returned to NYU where he taught as a professor emeritus until his retirement in 1999, at which time he devoted himself to working as a full-time writer. Although his early work focused on English religious and intellectual history, Cantor's later scholarly interests were diverse, and he found more success writing for a popular audience than he did engaging in more narrowly-focused original research. He did publish one monograph study, based on his graduate thesis, Church, kingship, and lay investiture in England, 1089-1135 , which appeared in 1958 and remains an important contribution to the topic of church-state relations in medieval England. Throughout his career, however, Cantor preferred to write on the broad contours of Western history, and on the history of academic medieval studies in Europe and North America, in particular the lives and careers of eminent medievalists. His books generally received mixed reviews in academic journals, but were often popular bestsellers, buoyed by Cantor's fluid, often colloquial, writing style and his lively critiques of persons and ideas both past and present. Cantor was intellectually conservative and expressed deep skepticism about what he saw as methodological fads, particularly Marxism and postmodernism, but he also argued for greater inclusion of women and minorities in traditional historical narratives. In both his best-selling Inventing the Middle Ages and his autobiography, Inventing Norman Cantor , he reflected on his strained relationship over the years with other historians and with academia in general. Upon retirement in 1999, Cantor moved to Miami, Florida, where he continued to work on several books up to the time of his death, including the New York Times best-seller "In the Wake of the Plague." He had been editor of Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (1999) Select bibliography of Cantor's publications. The Medieval World 300-1500 ('Norman Cantor, Civilization of the Middle Ages, p. 2') Perspectives on the European Past The Civilization of the Middle Ages A revision of his earlier Medieval History: the Life and Death of a Civilization (1963) (ISBN 0-06-017033-6) 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 The English Western Civilization: Its Genesis and Destiny The Meaning of the Middle Ages 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 Medieval Lives Medieval Society, 400-1450 The Age of Protest (1971) Twentieth Century Medieval Culture The Sacred Chain: History of the Jews (1994) Harper/Collins The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (1997) In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (2001) Antiquity (2003) The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (2004) A look at John of Gaunt Alexander the Great (2005) Published posthumously by HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-057012-1) Cantor published a memoir in 2002, Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Medievalist. CANTOR, Norman F(rank) 1929-2004. OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; died of heart failure September 18, 2004, in Miami, FL. Historian, educator, and author. Cantor was a history professor best known for his books about medieval civilization in Europe. After graduating from the University of Manitoba in 1951, he immigrated to the United States, where he completed his master's and doctorate degrees at Princeton University in 1953 and 1957 respectively; he also studied at Oxford from 1954 to 1955 as a Rhodes scholar. His academic career began at Princeton, where he taught for two years before teaching at Columbia University from 1960 to 1966. During the late 1960s, he was a faculty member at Brandeis University, and during the early 1970s he taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he also chaired the history department for four years, was provost of graduate studies and research for a year, and was vice president of academic affairs from 1975 to 1976. After teaching from 1976 to 1978 and serving as dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1978 to 1981 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cantor settled down at New York University. He joined the faculty there as professor of history, sociology, and comparative literature, retiring as professor emeritus in 1999; he also directed the Institute of Cultural Analysis from 1981 to 1987. As a writer, he was appreciated for his lucid prose and is best known for his book The Life and Death of a Civilization (1963), which was later revised as The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1993). Among his many other publications are Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (1991), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle; The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews (1994); In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (2001); The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (2004); and Alexander the Great (2005). He was also the editor of The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, among many other works.