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First editions (publ. Cambridge University Press) A History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman, published in three volumes during 1951–1954 (vol.I - The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; vol. II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187; vol. III - The Kingdom of Accre and the Later Crusades), is an influential work in the historiography of the ...
Pages in category "Runciman Award winners" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Runciman Report was issued at the conclusion of Lord Runciman's Mission to Czechoslovakia in September 1938. [1] The purpose of the Mission was to mediate in a dispute between the Government of Czechoslovakia and the Sudeten German Party (SdP), representing German separatists within Czechoslovakia (in the so-called "Sudetenland"), which was threatening to plunge Europe into war.
Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH FBA (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000), known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951–54). His works had a profound impact on the popular conception of the Crusades.
The Runciman family produced a father and son who sat in the House of Lords simultaneously, the father as a baron, the son as a viscount. Both were prominent government ministers, and both were peers of first creation. The first Viscountess, Hilda Runciman, was an MP in her own right briefly.
Runciman railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand, [1] [2] serving an area which had been sold by James Runciman in 1864, with plots near the proposed railway gaining higher prices.
Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman (6 July 1847 – 13 August 1937), was an English and Scottish shipping magnate. He was born in the Scottish town of Dunbar . Runciman was the fourth son of Walter Runciman, master of a schooner and later a member of the coastguard, and Jane, oldest daughter of John Finlay, shipowner, also of Dunbar.
Gorsline is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dennis Gorsline (born 1943), American football coach; Douglas W. Gorsline (1913–1985), American ...