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Steven Runciman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman
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
Acting
Known for
- Crusades — Himself1995
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1903
- Active to
- 2000
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 137
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 530
- Cited by
- 46,699
Research areas
Most cited works
- α-Synuclein Locus Triplication Causes Parkinson's Disease2003 · 4,393 cit
- Mutations in LRRK2 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Parkinsonism with Pleomorphic Pathology2004 · 3,043 cit
- Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease2009 · 2,112 cit
- α-synuclein locus duplication as a cause of familial Parkinson's disease2004 · 2,036 cit
- VPS35 Mutations in Parkinson Disease2011 · 892 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,741x
- Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
· 1998 · cited 33,710x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,892x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,472x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,773x
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Quotes
- “Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.”
- “I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”
- “Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably one's forebears'.”
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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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- date of birth
- 1903-07-07
- date of death
- 2000-11-01
- name in native language
- Steven Runciman
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- www.ft.com/content/263bead8-96ac-11e6-a1dc-bdf38d484582
- P12749
- Rudolf A. Haunschmied
- nickname
- Steven
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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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