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Obituary: Sir Steven Runciman
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STEVEN RUNCIMAN was the leading British specialist in the history
of the Byzantine Empire and the Crusades.
He had a romantic love of the Middle Ages since early childhood.
For Runciman, history was above all a story, "the only form of
learning that is entirely about human beings" (animals, vegetables
and minerals were firmly excluded). He wrote in the preface to his
celebrated three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951-54): "I
believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to wr...
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