How long does it take to read The Civilization of the Middle Ages?
The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor takes about 11 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 614 pages, about 168,850 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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 Ages to A.D. 450 and the Later Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as well as a sharper focus in social history, Jewish history, and women's roles in society, and popular religion and heresy. While the first and last sections of the book are almost entirely new and many additions have been incorporated in the intervening sections, Cantor has retained the powerful narrative flow that made the earlier editions so accessible and exciting. Cantor's book was innovative in 1963 because it was the first comprehensive general history of the Middle Ages to center on medieval culture and religion rather than political history (which was, however, dealt with, but from the perspective of applied intellect and social ordering). It remains a unique book in that regard. The book also featured the highlighting of prominent medieval personalities through dozens of biographical sketches, which has been retained. Although it draws upon a century of detailed research on the medieval world and is authoritative in its learning, from first page to last, Cantor's book tells an exciting and compelling story.
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, History, Medieval Civilization, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge, Moyen-Age
