Editing Steven Runciman (section)

{{Short description|British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)}}
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{{Infobox person 
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Sir Steven Runciman
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CH|FBA}}
| image            = Steven Runciman (1903–2000).jpg
| caption          = Runciman in 1957
| birth_name       = James Cochran Stevenson Runciman<ref name=Constable>{{cite journal|last=Constable|first=Giles|author-link=Giles Constable|year=2003|title=Sir Steven Runciman, 7 July 1903 · 1 November 2000|journal=[[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society]]|volume=147|issue=1|pages=95{{ndash}}101|jstor=1558132}}</ref>
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1903|7|7}} 
| birth_place      = [[Northumberland]], England
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2000|11|1|1903|7|7}}
| death_place      = [[Radway]], Warwickshire, England
| alma_mater       = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| occupation       = Historian
| known_for        = ''[[A History of the Crusades]]''
| parents          = [[Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford]]<br/>[[Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford|Hilda Stevenson]]
}}
'''Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CH|FBA}} (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000), known as '''Steven Runciman''', was an English historian best known for his three-volume ''[[A History of the Crusades]]'' (1951–54). His works had a profound impact on the popular conception of the [[Crusades]].