. Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages (HarperCollins, 1994). Includes St. Augustine, Hildegard of Bingen, and Christine de Pizan. The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (HarperCollins, 1997). (1st). . In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (Simon & Schuster, 2001) . Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Medievalist (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jan 1, 2002). Memoir. . Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire (HarperCollins, 2003) . The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (Harper Perennial, 2004) A look at John of Gaunt. . Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (with Dee Ranieri) (HarperCollins, 2005). Published posthumously. (). References External links New York Times News Service obituary The Telegraph newspaper, 1 October 2004 Norman Cantor About Inventing the Middle Ages Review of Inventing the Middle Ages in New York Review of Books 1929 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians American medievalists Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Princeton University alumni University of Manitoba alumni Binghamton University faculty Brandeis University faculty Columbia University faculty New York University faculty Academic staff of Tel Aviv University University of Illinois Chicago faculty Canadian expatriate academics in the United States Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian medievalists Canadian Rhodes Scholars Historiographers Jewish historians Jewish Canadian writers People with bipolar disorder Writers from Winnipeg