Runciman, Sir Steven

Runciman, Sir Steven
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James Cochran Stevenson Runciman 
      British historian (b. July 7, 1903, Northumberland, Eng.—d. Nov. 1, 2000, Radway, Eng.), was a leading expert on the history of the Byzantine Empire and the Crusades. His three-volume work, A History of the Crusades, was published in 1951–54 to wide acclaim and was followed by The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 (1965), another highly praised work. Runciman served as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1938 and as a professor of Byzantine art and history at the University of Istanbul from 1942 to 1945, but for most of his life he was an independent scholar. A Traveller's Alphabet, a memoir, appeared in 1991. Runciman was knighted in 1958.

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