![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1942 to 1945 he was Professor of Byzantine Art and History at Istanbul University, in Turkey, where he began the research on the Crusades which would lead to his best known work, the History of the Crusades (three volumes appearing in 1951, 1952, and 1954). His work on the Byzantine Empire earned him a fellowship at Trinity in 1927.Īfter receiving a large inheritance from his grandfather, Runciman resigned his fellowship in 1938 and began travelling widely. Bury, becoming, as Runciman later commented, "his first, and only, student." At first the reclusive Bury tried to brush him off then, when Runciman mentioned that he could read Russian, Bury gave him a stack of Bulgarian articles to edit, and so their relationship began. In 1921 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a history scholar and studied under J.B. While there, they both studied French under Aldous Huxley. A King's Scholar at Eton College, he was an exact contemporary and close friend of George Orwell. ![]()
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