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Steven Runciman
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British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)
Person · Open Library
- 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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Film & TV
Known for
- Crusades — Himself1995
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- James Cochran Stevenson Runciman , ( 1903-07-07 ) 7 July 1903, Northumberland , England
- Died
- 1 November 2000 (2000-11-01) (aged 97), Radway , Warwickshire, England
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Occupation
- Historian
- Known for
- A History of the Crusades
- Parent s
- Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford , Hilda Stevenson
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Place of death
- Radway
- Educated at
- Trinity College
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1903-07-07
- date of death
- 2000-11-01
- member of
- Medieval Academy of America
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Steven Runciman
- described by source
- The Daily Telegraph
- described at URL
- www.ft.com/content/263bead8-96ac-11e6-a1dc-bdf38d484582
- P12749
- Rudolf A. Haunschmied
- nickname
- Steven
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
Biography
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