Editing Norman Cantor (section)

{{Short description|Canadian-American historian}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Norman F. Cantor
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| birth_date       = November 19, 1929
| birth_place      = [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], Canada
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2004|9|18|1929|11|19|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Miami]], [[Florida]], U.S.
| occupation       = [[Historian]], [[essayist]], [[teacher]]
| alma_mater       = [[University of Manitoba]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Oriel College, Oxford]]<br>[[Princeton University]] ([[M. A.|MA]], [[PhD]])
| spouse           = Mindy Mozart (m. 1957)
| children         = Howard Cantor, Judy Cantor
}}

'''Norman Frank Cantor''' (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004)<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|title=Norman F. Cantor, 74, a Noted Medievalist, Is Dead|date=September 21, 2004|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/obituaries/norman-f-cantor-74-a-noted-medievalist-is-dead.html|author=Saxon, Wolfgang|work=The New York Times |access-date=December 19, 2019}}</ref> was a Canadian-American medievalist.  Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. He estimated that his textbook ''The Civilization of the Middle Ages'', first published in 1963, had a million copies in circulation.<ref>{{cite news|author=Verduin, Kathleen|title=Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Medievalist|url=http://www.perspicuitas.uni-essen.de/rezens/rez_verduin.pdf|access-date=December 19, 2019|publisher=Perspicuitas|date=October 2, 2003}}</ref>