450) to the Italian Renaissance of the late fifteenth century. Whether called by the singular or the plural, the medieval era in Western civilization is the millennium that stretched from the fall of the Roman Empire in Europe (about A.D. In English-speaking countries since about 1840 it is generally referred to in the plural-the Middle Ages-signifying the several distinct suberas during one very long epoch. In France, Germany, and Italy they still call it the Middle Age. THE QUEST FOR THE MIDDLE AGES I BETWEEN ROME AND RENAISSANCE It takes an immense body of learning and transmits it so that readers come away fully informed of the essentials of the subject, perceiving the interconnection of medieval civilization with the culture of the twentieth century and having had a good time while doing it! This is a riveting, entertaining, humorous, and learned read, compulsory for anyone concerned about the past and future of Western civilization. Cantor makes their scholarship an intensely personal and passionate exercise, full of color and controversy, displaying the strong personalities and creative minds that brought new insights about the past.Ī revolution in academic method, this book is a breakthrough to a new way of teaching the humanities and historiography, to be enjoyed by student and general public alike.
Norman Cantor focuses on the lives and works of twenty of the great medievalists of this century, demonstrating how the events of their lives, and their spiritual and emotional outlooks, influenced their interpretations of the Middle Ages. It had to be conceptually created: It had to be invented, and this is the story of that invention. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research.
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
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