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Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH FBA (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000), known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951–54). His works had a profound impact on the popular conception of the Crusades.
Oct 5, 2016 · As Runciman told a friend: “I have the temperament of a harlot, and so am free of emotional complications.” In the one judgement that seems off-key in his biography, Dinshaw writes that the reason why Runciman played such a delicate game of sexual semi-concealment was that he believed homosexuality was “an inarguable offence against God”.
Nov 3, 2000 · Sir Steven Runciman, a British historian who wrote stirring narratives of the crusades and the fall of the fabled Byzantine city of Constantinople to the 15th-century Turks, died on Wednesday...
Sir Steven Runciman, who died aged 97 on November 1 last year, was a man of many parts: an eminent scholar and historian, responsible in no small measure for the revival in the 20th century of our western interest in Byzantine history and art, a leading authority on the Crusades, a traveller and lecturer world-wide and, above all, a fascinating ...
A History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman, published in three volumes during 1951–1954 (vol. I - The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; vol. II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187; vol. III - The Kingdom of Accre and the Later Crusades ), is an influential work in the historiography of the ...
Steven Runciman has 53 books on Goodreads with 23666 ratings. Steven Runciman’s most popular book is A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusa...
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Sir Steven Runciman, one of the most acclaimed historians of the Byzantine era, was the author of many influential works, including the three-volume History of the Crusades.
