Sir Steven Runciman: Bridge To The East (TV Documentary - 1987)

What a lovely film. Thank you.

Amazing to have this film, thank you.

Mystras is a wonderful place. It really captures the essence of the Greek Byzantine Civilization.

I remember this being shown on television one evening in 1987. Delightful and enchanting. Great to see it on here. Thanks!

Great show! RIP Sir Steven Runciman!

OUTLANDISH KNIGHT: THE BYZANTINE LIFE OF STEVEN RUNCIMAN by Minoo Dinshaw, 2016
784 page biography of [possibly] Britain's greatest ever polyglot.
He travelled widely and his life, 1903 - 2000, was 97 years of an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
Our [Western European] perception of the Crusades was totally reinvented by this one genius.

Very interesting and enjoyable, thank you.

What an amazing, lovely film. Thank you.

Obituary from the The Times, Thursday 2 November 2000

Sir Steven Runciman

Scholar, linguist and gossip, whose revisionist History of the Crusades and
studies of Byzantium were massively researched and widely read

Steven Runciman was famous for throwing light on some very dark ages, and
attempting, as he said the historian must, "to record in one great sweeping
sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of
man". But as well as being the leading historian of the Crusades, he was a
world traveller, the companion of royalty - at least four queens were said
to have turned out for his 80th birthday - and an aficionado of the foibles
of the powerful, whether past or present. Details of forgotten personalities
glint in all his writings, and he could discourse about ancient genealogies,
scandals and feuds until the crusaders came home.

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The Hon Sir Steven Runciman, CH, FBA, historian, was born on July 7, 1903. He
died yesterday [Wednesday, 1 November, 2000] aged 97.

Wonderful film. Wonderful man.

It is a pleasure to watch this film, the atmosphere is like the one in" Jesus of Nazareth" by Zeffirelli . Sir Steven Runciman is a great scholar and raconteur, the kind of professor we have to follow if we can still have a chance to meet!

Born in 1903,retrospective1987,Died2000