Word: runciman
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...HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES, VOL. II (23 pp.)-Steven Runciman- Cambridge University Press...
...Steven Runciman, 49, is a British scholar who wrote his first history essays at Trinity College, Cambridge, under the guidance of the dean of English-language historians, G. M. Trevelyan. He has spent the rest of his life teaching and studying the history of the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe and the Near East. He has traveled widely in the lands he studies, and he can get around linguistically in Greek, Arabic, Syriac and the Slavonic languages. But, like Trevelyan, he believes that history needs good writing as well as sound scholarship. His History of the Crusades, of which...