A History of the Crusades - Volume III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades

Author(s): Steven Runciman

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The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion' Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and continue to resonate today. This final volume of the trilogy begins with the glamorous Third Crusade and ends with the ruinous collapse of the crusader states and the degeneration of their ideals, which reached its nadir in the tragic destruction of Byzantium. 'When historical events are written about with this sort of command, they take on not only the universality of a fairy tale but also a certain moral weight. Runciman writes both seductively and instructively about the dignity and beauty of different religious beliefs and about the difficulties of their co-existence' Independent

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Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000) was one of the greatest British historians. He drastically recast how we think about both the Crusades and the history of Byzantium. His major works include The Sicilian Vespers (1958), The Great Church in Captivity (1968), Byzantine Style and Civilization (1975) and Mistra (1980). His three volume history of the Crusades: The First Crusade, The Kingdom of Jerusalem and The Kingdom of Acre were published 1951-54 and have been in print ever since.

General Fields

  • : 9780241298770
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Classics
  • : 0.33
  • : October 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Steven Runciman
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : en
  • : 909.07
  • : 462
  • : HBWC