Norman F Cantor
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Contrary to popular belief, Cantor concludes that the Black Death was probably two diseases at once--bubonic plague and anthrax. The author shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as specific individuals, and thus profoundly altered history. Benefits of the outbreak, including explosions in artistic and scientific thought, are also described.
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"In 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Further editions of this immediately celebrated book appeared in 1968 and 1974. Now, a thorough revision, update and significant expansion of the book has been made with a third of the text new. The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in interpretation, and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle...
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Eight portraits of medieval men and women brought to life through imagined conversations with their contemporaries in the fifth to fifteenth centuries. Includes Helena Augusta, Augustine of Hippo, Alcuin of York, Humbert of Lorraine, Hildegard of Bingen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Robert Grosseteste, and John Duke of Bedford.
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"From the fall of Rome to the beginning of the Renaissance, this comprehensive work presents the full pageant of medieval times across the entire Old World - with articles on the New World, Africa, and the Far East as well. Twenty major essays anchor the text while more than 600 entries written by a coterie of the world's best medieval historians and writers provide specific information on everything from the Abbadid Dynasty to the Seal of Zug. Interspersed...
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