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...FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1453, by Steven Runciman. 256 pages. Cambridge University Press...
...Steven Runciman, a former fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, will offer two lectures on "The Greeks of Constantinople Under the Ottoman Turks." He will speak today on "The Clergy" and Thursday on "The Laity" at 4 p.m., in the Lamont Forum Room...
...HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES, by Steven Runciman. The third and last volume of the best written and most scholarly history of Christianity's greatest show of militant faith...
Among the best accounts ever written is Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades, now brought to authoritative completion with the third volume, The Kingdom of Acre. Historian Runciman writes in the magistral tradition of Gibbon, Macaulay and his mentor, G. M. Trevelyan. The first two volumes (TIME, Dec. i, 1952) told how the half-civilized Prankish warriors, massacring Saracens on the walls of Jerusalem and Tyre, won dazzling triumphs and founded a kingdom in the Holy Land. The concluding volume relates the somber story of how the warrior pilgrims, having lost the Holy City while squabbling over lands...
Greed & Folly. For all his excellence in telling the story, Historian Runciman finishes with a startling piece of moralizing hindsight: "The historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at ... the limitations of human nature. There was so much courage and so little honor, so much devotion and so little understanding. High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which...