The Civilization of the Middle Ages, Norman F. Cantor
The Civilization of the Middle Ages, Norman F. Cantor
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages

Author: Norman F. Cantor

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 28 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

In 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work. The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in interpretation, and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages and the Later Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, womens roles in society, and popular religion and heresy distinguish the book. While the first and last sections of the book are almost entirely new and many additions have been incorporated in the intervening sections, Cantor has retained the powerful narrative flow that made earlier editions so accessible.

About Norman F. Cantor

Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of history, sociology, and comparative literature at New York University. His many books include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He died in 2004.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on February 26, 2019

Dr. Cantor was the chairman of my doctoral committee at SUNY Binghamton in the mid 70s. I took a number of his seminars over the course of two years. I had read portions of his textbook, but this is the first time I have read it cover to cover. It was written in the early 60s as a college textbook.......more

Goodreads review by Scriptor Ignotus on October 30, 2016

An engrossing general history, written with an all-but-vanished classical sensibility. Cantor does not share the twenty-first century insistence that civilization and barbarism are nothing more than arbitrary categories reflecting cultural prejudices. He believes in civilization as a cultural achiev......more

Goodreads review by William on October 08, 2009

The book listed here is an update to the one I actually read, which is probably the book's first edition, purchased and first read in 1965. The reason I reread it is twofold; one I have been reading mostly mind candy thrillers and, two, I have always considered this one of my favorite books. It stil......more

Goodreads review by Greg on January 25, 2020

When I was a boy, my first impression of "the Middle Ages" was a combination of the "Dark Ages," Arthur of Camelot, and heavily armored knights clashing on horseback. And then there was the indirect influence of Mr. Gibbon's monumental work on the "fall" of the Roman Empire, after which -- lights out......more

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