Outlandish knight : the Byzantine life of Steven Runciman
Dinshaw, Minoo2016
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In his enormously long life (he was born in 1903 and died in 2000), Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His friendships, curiosities and plottings entangled him in a huge array of different artistic movements, civil wars, Cold War betrayals and, above all, the rediscovery of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. He was as happy living in a remote part of the Inner Hebrides as in the heart of Istanbul. He was obsessed with historical truth, but also with tarot, second sight, ghosts and the uncanny. 'Outlandish Knight' is a dazzling debut by a writer who has prodigious gifts, but who also has had the ability to spot one of the great biographical subjects.
Main title:
Outlandish knight : the Byzantine life of Steven Runciman / Minoo Dinshaw.
Author:
Dinshaw, Minoo, author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2016.
Collation:
xvi, 767 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241004937 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
907.202B RUNB
Language:
English
BRN:
1850575
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