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...HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES, VOL. Ill: THE KINGDOM OF ACRE (530 pp.)-Steven Runciman-Cambridge University Press...
...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...
...demand to expel the Moslems from the Holy Land throbbed in the conscience of Christian Europe through the 12th century, and for many years thereafter. Few places in the West escaped the eloquence of the Crusader preachers. Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments...
Died. Walter Runciman, Viscount of Doxford, 78, onetime Liberal M.P.,* President of the Board of Trade (1914-16, 1931-37); after long illness; in Chathill, England. In 1931 Runciman drafted, under Tory pressure, the emergency tariff that ended Britain's 80-year-old free trade policy; in 1938 he was unofficial mediator in the Czech-Sudeten pre-World War II crisis...