Norman Cantor (1929–2004)
Auteur van De zwarte dood hoe de pest de wereld veranderde
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Norman F. Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University.
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History (1964) 1,388 exemplaren
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (1991) 794 exemplaren
The Medieval Reader: First-hand Accounts of the Middle Ages Including Letters, Essays, State and Church Documents,… (1994) 522 exemplaren
Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire (2003) 437 exemplaren
The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (2004) 383 exemplaren
Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1648 (Ideas & institutions in western civilization) (1963) 142 exemplaren
Ideas and institutions in Western civilization 31 exemplaren
The Structure of European History: Volume III Renaissance, Reformation, and Absolutism 1450-1650 (1972) 24 exemplaren
The Structure of European History: Volume I, Ancient Civilization 4000 BC- 400 AD (1967) 24 exemplaren
The structure of European history 24 exemplaren
The Modern World: 1848 to the Present/Ideas and Institutions in Western Civilization (1963) 13 exemplaren
The Structure of European History: Volume VI. Twentieth Century: 1914 To the Present (1967) 12 exemplaren
Western Civilization Its Genesis and Destiny: The Modern Heritage from 1500 to t (1969) 10 exemplaren
The Structure of European History: Volume IV: The Fulfillment and Collapse of the Old Regime 1650 - 1815 (1967) 9 exemplaren
The Structure of European History: Volume V: The Making of the Modern World 1815 - 1914 (1967) 6 exemplaren
Ancient and Medieval Europe to 1500 1 exemplaar
A special issue on "Voice" 1 exemplaar
Colloquium, No. 2, 1964 1 exemplaar
After We Die 1 exemplaar
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- Cantor, Norman
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- Cantor, Norman Frank
- Geboortedatum
- 1929-11-19
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2004-09-18
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- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Greenwich Village, New York, USA
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- Heart Failure
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- Miami, Florida, USA (death)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Opleiding
- University of Manitoba (B.A. ∙ 1951)
Princeton University (MA ∙ 1953)
Oriel College, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar)
Princeton University (PhD - 1957) - Beroepen
- medievalist
historian
writer
author
professor - Organisaties
- Princeton University
Columbia University
Brandeis University
Binghamton University
University of Illinois at Chicago
New York University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Rhodes Scholar
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- Alexander C. Hoyt
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- Norman Frank Cantor was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. He received his bachelor's degree at the University of Manitoba and his master's degree from Princeton. He spent a year at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then earned his doctorate from Princeton in 1957. After teaching at Princeton, Prof. Cantor moved to Columbia University from 1960 to 1966; Brandeis University until 1970; SUNY Binghamton until 1976; and the University of Illinois at Chicago for two years. He went on to New York University, where he was professor of history, sociology and comparative literature. After a brief stint as Fulbright Professor at Tel Aviv University, he began to devote himself writing full-time.
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This book examines significant protest movements of the twentieth century and looks at the similarities and differences between the various dissents and rebellions. Beginning with the mood of weariness and dissatisfaction with the old regimes at the turn of the century, it discusses the emergence of protest as an ideal, a viable force for reform. From radical unionism, it traces the thread through bohemianism, international communism and anticolonialism in the twenties; fascism and Nazism and protest as a way of life up to 1945; the Afro-Asian and early civil rights movements of the fifties; and the agitating students and revolutionary movements of the sixties.… (meer)
A very general survey of the topic. A few interesting bits on remedies tried at the time along with some speculative fairy tales on origin. Not much in the way of personal histories, but the point of the book was the overall effect.
History as cliff's notes. -1 star for the ridiculous "dailogue" featuring St. Augustine. -1 star for the snoozefest re Roman law.
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Cantor however focusses on the plague, linking it both to bubonic plague and to anthrax. He discusses how its ravages had an impact on every possible area of life: on internal and external politics, on royal, noble and yeoman dynasties, on class structures, economics, religious thought, on war. He looks at how earlier outbreaks of such plagues affected the decline of the Roman Enpire. He discusses how scientific thought at the time had little or nothing to offer in the fight against the disease. There's a lot here.
It's an interesting, often fascinating read. It is however a little disjointed, as though Cantor himself could nor decide how best to organise his material. The other jarring note comes when he frequently refers to the 'ranches' of sheep and cattle of the farms and estates of central and northern England.
However, as an introduction to aspects of medieval European history and the mindset of its inhabitants, this is an accessible and readable account.… (meer)