# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-cantor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:35:25.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-cantor"
name: "Norman Cantor"
slug: "norman-cantor"
description: "Norman Frank Cantor 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."
tagline: "Canadian historian (1929-2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-11-19"
deathDate: "2004-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.41
  momentum:             0.6333333333333334
  historical:           10.50111866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "نورمان كانتور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "نورمان كانتور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cantor"
    title: "Norman Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Кантор, Норман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_F._Cantor"
    title: "Norman F. Cantor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1348881"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump