Norman Cantor

Norman Frank Cantor (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004)) was a Canadian-American historian who specialized in the medieval period.

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 * Is historical writing to be addressed to a small group of academics or is it to be communicated to the educated world at large? I stand with the latter proposition, that history books are communicable to and accessible by the educated public at large. The ultimate task and obligation of a historian is to bring this kind of illumination to as wide an audience as possible.