Steven Runciman
Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman, 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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- Born in
- Northumberland
- Educated at
- Eton CollegeTrinity College
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- 🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Wolfson History Prize🏆 Livingstone Medal🏆 Companion of Honour🏆 Fellow of the British Academy
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