As a work that eloquently combined history and literary style, Runciman's "A History of the Crusades", remains a formidable synthesis of centuries of crusade history into a well-blended narrative.
As a work that eloquently combined history and literary style, Runciman's A History of the Crusades, remains formidable. This combination helped to catapult AHC to prominence as a work that synthesized centuries of crusade history into a well-blended narrative.