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,
“... and difficulties that creates for the biographer. Ideally, a study on the monumental scale of Dinshaw’s book would need to offer a persuasive assessment of Runciman’s status as a scholar as well as a portrait of the person behind the artful carapace. In both respects Outlandish Knight is an uneven success. Steven Runciman at Cambridge in ... ”
