OUTLANDISH KNIGHT

The biography of one of the greatest British historians - but also of a uniquely strange and various manIn his enormously long life, 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 intrigues enta ngled him in a huge array of different artistic movements, civil wars, Cold War betrayals and, above all, the rediscovery of the his tory of t...[Leer más]