Norman Cantor has left the lectern...

[lagilman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/obituaries/21cantor.html


*mourn*


Inventing the Middle Ages is a book I highly rec to anyone who has any interest in that period, as a scholar or a writer or a reader. And anything else he wrote, while I'm at it -- not always the juciest of books, no, but informative and well-written and thoughtful.

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

His Inventing the Middle Ages was published while I was in grad school and we discussed it. Many of my professors who knew some of Cantor's subjects took great exception to his portrayal of them.

However, he was informative and a good writer.

[lagilman]

Well, he was taking on many subjects people had based their careers on, so, um, 'discussion' was inevitable. I remember hearing some of the publicity folks talking about it at the time, and learned much about dealing with grumpy flak from them. ;-)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I've just added a basic article about Cantor to wikipedia.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Oh, sadness. I majored in social history in part because of him and Peter Brown.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I have good memories of Peter Brown, who was a guest speaker on my campus for a week. Wonderful fellow. Great books. An inspiration (along with Marc Bloch and Richard Southern).

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed PURSUIT OF THE MILLENNIUM, too, which pushed me toward my eventual dissertation topic; Bloch pushed me toward scholarship in apocalyptic times.

Sir Richard Southern was an outstanding scholar and speaker.

Who was the man who did the three-volume history of the Crusades? I loved those books.