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1	The First Crusade more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they remain one of the most exciting and colourful adventure stories in history. An army of mounted warriors, travelling with peasants, merchants and artisans, faced a journey over hostile terrain, meeting with unforeseen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.66! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Fall of Constantinople 1453 more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the ... see all copies from $8.40! new only from $12.34! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist This is Sir Steven Runciman's established and widely admired classic account of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, first published in 1968. The Great Church, as the Greeks called the Orthodox Patriarchate, was the spiritual centre of the Byzantine world. The Church's survival during the four centuries of Turkish rule which followed the fall of ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $37.90! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians might seem just another resistance movement. ... see all copies from $3.72! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A history of the Crusades. more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! new only from $17.77! \| first editions
6	A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, the First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist 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 deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. As Runciman says in his preface: 'Whether we regard the Crusades as the most tremendous and most romantic ... see all copies from $9.37! new only from $49.92!
7	A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, the Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. In this final volume, Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom at the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The interwoven themes of the book include: Christiandom, the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $99.95!
8	The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the Xith and Xiith Centuries more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $23.85! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A History of the Crusades: Volume 2, the Kingdom of Jerusalem more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $149.94!
10	A Traveller's Alphabet: Partial Memoirs more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist This book is not a serious contribution to travel-literature. (The author has) made no attempt to interpret the way of life in the lands (he has) visited or even to describe the beauties of nature and the works of art to be found there. (His) intention is only to record (his) own experiences in a number of places to which curiosity or ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
11	The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist This study, centred around the reign of the usurping Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, was originally published in 1929, reissued in 1963, and has been out of print for several years. It contributed to the revival of interest in Byzantine studies at that time, and has since remained one of the most authoritative and readable accounts of the period. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $34.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Last Byzantine Renaissance more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist During the last two centuries of its existence the Byzantine Empire was politically in a state of utter decadence, but, in contrast, its intellectual life has never before shone so brilliantly. In these four lectures the author discusses the leading scholars of the period, their erudition, their intense individualism, their controversies and their ... see all copies from $19.07! new only from $23.75! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Byzantine Theocracy: The Weil Lectures, Cincinatti more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist The constitution of the Byzantine Empire was based on the conviction that it was the earthly copy of the Kingdom of Heaven. Just as God ruled in Heaven, so the Emperor, made in his image, should rule on earth and carry out his commandments. This was the theory, but in practice the state was never free from its Roman past, particularly the Roman ... see all copies from $36.22! new only from $36.22! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Byzantine civilization more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $2.10! first editions \| SVS
15	Byzantine more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| SVS
16	Mistra: Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $16.91! new only from $39.97!
17	Fall of Constantinople more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $4.50!
18	Emperor Romanus Lecapenus more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist This study, centred around the reign of the usurping Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, was originally published in 1929, reissued in 1963, and has been out of print for several years. It contributed to the revival of interest in Byzantine studies at that time, and has since remained one of the most authoritative and readable accounts of the period. see all copies from $30.00! first editions
19 view cover	A History of the Crusades 3 Volume Set (Hardback) more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. Volume I deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume II describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of ... see all copies from $19.44!
20 view cover	The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist A reissue of Sir Steven Runciman's classic account of the Dualist heretic tradition in Christianity from its Gnostic origins, through Armenia, Byzantium, and the Balkans to its final flowering in Italy and Southern France. The chief danger that early Christianity had to face came from the heretical Dualist sect founded in the mid-third century A.D ... see all copies from $14.98! new only from $31.56! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Byzantine Style more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $19.75!
22	The Orthodox Churches and the secular State more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $39.95!
23	E.F. Benson: Remembered, and the World of Tilling by Cynthia; Reavell Reavell, Tony; Runciman, Sir Steven (Preface). add to wishlist see all copies from $75.00! signed copies
24	A history of the Crusades. Vol.1, The First Crusade and the foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem more books like this by Steven Runciman add to wishlist see all copies from $9.13!
25 view cover	The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese more books like this by Sir Steven Runciman, Professor John Freely (Foreword by) add to wishlist Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. Following the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese in the thirteenth century, William II of Villehardouin built a great castle on a hill near Sparta that later ... see all copies from $12.62! new only from $12.62! \| SVS

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