“High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the last blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.”

About Steven Runciman

Historian • British

Sir Steven Runciman was a prominent British historian, best known for his comprehensive three-volume work, A History of the Crusades. Runciman's narrative style made complex historical events accessible to a broad...