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A History of the Crusades Paperback - 1987

by Steven Runciman


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Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. As Runciman says in his preface, 'The politics of the Moslem world in the early twelfth-century defy straightforward analysis, but they must be understood if we are to understand the establishment of the Crusader states and the later causes of the recovery of Islam ... The main theme in this volume is warfare ... I have followed the example of the old chroniclers, who knew their business; for war was the background to life in Outremer and the hazards of the battlefield often decided its destiny.'

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When the Frankish armies entered Jerusalem, the First Crusade attained its goal.

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  • Title A History of the Crusades
  • Author Steven Runciman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 538
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date December 25, 1987
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521347716 / 0521347718
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.51 x 1.13 in (21.59 x 14.00 x 2.87 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.1
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Reprint/later printing. Trade paperback. Very good. xi, [1], 522, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Genealogical Tables, Bibliography. Index. 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 three-volume history has had a profound impact on common conceptions of the Crusades, primarily portraying the Crusaders negatively and the Muslims favorably. Runciman was a strong admirer of the Byzantine Empire, and consequently held a bias against the Crusaders for the Fourth Crusade evident in his work. While praised by older crusade historians as a storyteller and prose stylist, he is viewed as biased by some contemporary historians. For much of his life he was an independent scholar, living on private means. He went on to be a press attache at the British Legation in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, in… Read More
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