Steven Runciman

Steven Runciman was born in 1903 in Northumberland, into a family of politicians; both of his parents served in Parliament. He said he began reading Greek at the age of seven or eight. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His work on the Byzantine Empire earned him a fellowship at Trinity in 1927. After receiving an inheritance he resigned his fellowship in 1938 and became an independent scholar. In the Second World War he was a press attaché in Sofia and Cairo, and from 1942 to 1945 he taught Byzantine art and history at Istanbul University. His best-known work, the three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951–1954), told the story from the viewpoint of the Byzantine and Muslim worlds as well as the West, and was widely read. He also wrote The Fall of Constantinople 1453 and The Sicilian Vespers. He travelled widely, especially in Greece and the Orthodox world, and was knighted in 1958. He never married. He died in 2000, at the age of 97.

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