Herberts & Herbertinas
Rosemary Hill: Steven Runciman, 20 October 2016
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
by Minoo Dinshaw.
Penguin, 767 pp., £30, September 2016,978 0 241 00493 7 Show More
by Minoo Dinshaw.
Penguin, 767 pp., £30, September 2016,
“... German invasion and thereby gather useful information, but in the event not much was achieved. As David Abulafia put it, if ‘he was something more than a professor of Byzantine studies … it would be absurd to cast him in the role of James Bond.’ In truth the war was enormously useful to him, allowing him to pursue his research. Afterwards he went to run ... ”