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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.
Dec 21, 2023 · A British historian born in 1903, Runciman is renowned for his expertise in Byzantine and medieval history, particularly the Crusades. This article unveils the lesser-known facets of his life and work, revealing the untold story of this history genius.
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 ...
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...
Dec 30, 2022 · Sir Steven Runciman: Bridge to the East Documentary 1987 54m Director: Lydia Carras Stars: Alan Bates (voice) and Steven Runciman A look at Byzantium through the eyes of one of Britain's...
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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”.
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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 ...
