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Author : Norman Cantor
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718897285
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Middle Ages written by Norman Cantor and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages, in our cultural imagination, are besieged with ideas of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights, lords and ladies. In his era-defining work, Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor shows that these presuppositions are in fact constructs of the twentieth century. Through close study of the lives and works of twenty of the twentieth century's most prominent medievalists, Cantor examines how the genesis of this fantasy arose in the scholars' spiritual and emotional outlooks, which influenced their portrayals of the Middle Ages. In the course of this vigorous scrutiny of their scholarship, he navigates the strong personalities and creative minds involved with deft skill. Written with both students and the general public in mind, Inventing the Middle Ages provided an alternative framework for the teaching of the humanities. Revealing the interconnection between medieval civilisation, the culture of the twentieth century and our own assumptions, Cantor provides a unique standpoint both forwards and backwards. As lively and engaging today as when it was first published in 1991, his analysis offers readers the core essentials of the subject in an entertaining and humorous fashion.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Norman Cantor written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476797749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the Plague written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060925795
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Lives written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-02-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversations between them and their counterparts.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439137587
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Knight written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. It was a world in transition, soon to be replaced by the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration -- and John of Gaunt was its central figure. In today's terms, John of Gaunt was a multibillionaire with a brand name equal to Rockefeller. He fought in the Hundred Years' War, sponsored Chaucer and proto-Protestant religious thinkers, and survived the dramatic Peasants' Revolt, during which his sumptuous London residence was burned to the ground. As head of the Lancastrian branch of the Plantagenet family, Gaunt was the unknowing father of the War of the Roses; after his death, his son usurped the crown from his nephew, Richard II. Gaunt's adventures represent the culture and mores of the Middle Ages as those of few others do, and his death is portrayed in The Last Knight as the end of that enthralling period.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062444611
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiquity written by Norman F. Cantor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006863458
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Chain written by Norman F. Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is certain to generate an intense public debate on the meaning of Jewish ethnicity and the significance of Jewish history.

Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828570
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State written by Joseph R. Strayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061738824
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure." In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries combined with the most recent psychological and cultural studies to show Alexander as he was -- a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. He describes Alexander's ambiguous relationship with his father, Philip II of Macedon; his oedipal involvement with his mother, the Albanian princess Olympias; and his bisexuality. He traces Alexander's attempts to bridge the East and West, the Greek and Persian worlds, using Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, as his model. Finally, Cantor explores Alexander's view of himself in relation to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt. More than a biography, Norman Cantor's Alexander the Great is a psychological rendering of a man of his time.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062444603
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization of the Middle Ages written by Norman F. Cantor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''No better explanation of medievalism is available to the general reader.'' --Booklist A revised and expanded edition of Norman Cantor's splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages, containing more than 30 percent new material from the original edition.