Editing Steven Runciman (section)

===Eton and Cambridge===
Runciman said that he started reading Greek at the age of seven or eight.<ref name="Panto">{{Cite web |title=The Last interview with the Great Byzantologist Sir Steven Runciman |url=https://www.impantokratoros.gr/B8BE43F5.en.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106013529/https://www.impantokratoros.gr/B8BE43F5.en.aspx |archive-date=2022-01-06 |access-date=2017-04-10 |website=[[Pantokratoros Monastery]] |language=en |issue=4}}</ref> Later he came to be able to make use of sources in other languages as well: Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]] and Georgian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The library of Sir Steven Runciman |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~itsnew/newsletter/2005/05/runciman.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411060035/https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~itsnew/newsletter/2005/05/runciman.html |archive-date=2017-04-11 |publisher=[[University of St Andrews]] |language=en |format=text.article |accessdate=2017-04-10}}</ref> A [[King's Scholar]] at [[Eton College]], he was an exact contemporary and close friend of [[George Orwell]].<ref name="lrb2016"/><ref name=":0"/> While there, they both studied French under [[Aldous Huxley]].{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

In 1921 he entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], as a history scholar and studied under [[J. B. Bury]], becoming, as Runciman later said, falsely, "his first, and only, student".<ref name="lrb2016"/> At first the reclusive Bury tried to brush him off; then, when Runciman mentioned that he could read [[Russian language|Russian]], Bury gave him a stack of [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] articles to edit, and so their relationship began. His work on the [[Byzantine Empire]] earned him a fellowship at Trinity in 1927.<ref name=":0"/>