Steven Runciman
Also known as Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman
British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)
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- Born
- 7 Jul 1903
- Died
- 1 Nov 2000
- Works
- 170
Top works
- The White rajahs
- The fall of Constantinople
- Venezia dalla prima Crociata alla conquista di Costantinopoli del 1204
- Paradise regained
- Mystras
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- Crusades — Himself1995
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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 within the Western world, although Runciman considered himself "not a historian, but a writer of literature," and British historian Christopher Tyerman considers Runciman's History to be the "last chronicle of the crusades". Runciman summarized the Crusades as "nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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1903 births2000 deaths20th-century British LGBTQ people20th-century English historians20th-century English male writersAcademic staff of Istanbul UniversityAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish ByzantinistsBritish gay writersBritish medievalistsCorresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of AmericaEnglish LGBTQ writers