* Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol.

The great historian of the Crusades, Sir Steven Runciman, wrote that the sack of Constantinople is “ unparalleled in history ”.

This is the interpretation offered by William of Tyre, who was firmly placed in the " noble " camp, and his view was taken up by subsequent historians ; in the 20th century, Marshall W. Baldwin, Steven Runciman, and Hans E. Mayer favoured this interpretation.

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In the mid twentieth century, Marshall W. Baldwin, Steven Runciman, and Hans E. Mayer were influential in perpetuating this point of view, although the more recent re-evaluations of this period by Vessey, Peter Edbury and Bernard Hamilton have undone much of William's influence.

" Steven Runciman wrote that " he had a broad vision ; he understood the significance of the great events of his time and the sequence of cause and effect in history.

* Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

* Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, volume 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East.

* Steven Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople, 1453.

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Steven Runciman argued that the crusade was motivated by a combination of theological justification for holy war and a " general restlessness and taste for adventure ", especially among the Normans and the " younger sons " of the French nobility who had no other opportunities.

Steven Runciman gives an account of the Children's Crusade in his A History of the Crusades.

* Steven Runciman, The Medieval Manichee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1947.

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Western historians have been more generous: Steven Runciman opined that Baldwin's ability was unquestioned and his courage superb.

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* Runciman, Steven, The Last Byzantine Renaissance ( Cambridge, 1970 )

The current holder is Evgeni Malkin, who scored 109 points in the 2011 – 12 season – twelve more than Steven Stamkos, which is the largest differential since the 1998 – 99 season.

At the start of the next season, 1990 – 91, he was named co-captain along with Steven Finn ( Sakic was captain for home games, Finn for away games ) and again passed the 100 point mark, improving to 109 points and sixth overall in the league, but would slip during 1991 – 92 to 94 points, partly as a result of missing eleven games.

Notable was an argument made by Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, arguing that the seeming " star map " was little more than a random alignment of chance points.

More precisely, as professor Steven Fleming points out, the shells that form the gallery roofs are " post-tensioned curved concrete beams, spanning an incredible 100 feet " ( 30. 5 m ), which " happened to have been the maximum distance that concrete walls or vaults could be produced without requiring expansion control joints.

He is well-known, and in some circles reviled, for the stridency with which he attacks artists as diverse as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, the Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles and Quentin Tarantino, whom he perceives as tricksters, using empty style and pseudo-intellectualism to score points with an " in " crowd ( he often refers to Spielberg's output after Schindler's List as Steven " Please take me seriously " Spielberg movies.

In another deadpan statement after the hearing, he stated " I've since watched a couple of Steven Seagal movies and realised that pressure points are no laughing matter ," but he also acknowledged his own " stupidity " in the controversy.

* Steven Hallard-2473 points (→ 21st place )

Critic Jennifer M. Wood points to the Palace Theater in San Francisco's North Beach district where, in 1968, San Francisco Art Institute graduates Michael Wiese and Steven Arnold, after a sellout screening of their Dalí-esque thesis film Messages, Messages, were invited to program offbeat films at midnight.

Contemporary American anarchist Hakim Bey reports that " Steven Pearl Andrews ... was not a fourierist ( see Charles Fourier ), but he lived through the brief craze for phalansteries in America & adopted a lot of fourierist principles & practices ... a maker of worlds out of words.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct an adaptation of the television series with George Clooney set to star but had to back out due to health issues.

With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and Steven Spielberg in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the project at DreamWorks ; he received assurances from the studio — known at the time for its more conventional fare — that it would not " iron the out ".

Steven Muhlberger has subsequently pointed out for many of the events in his chronicle Hydatius are based on word of mouth, and many problems with his chronology " resulted from delays and distortions in the best information to which he had access "; the evidence of Hydatius is not as decisive as Oost believed in his article.

* Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, a specialist who puts out oil fires who ran a afoul with Ageis Oil

According to John Leguizamo, who played Master Sergeant Carlos " Rat " Lopez in the movie, Steven Seagal had punched the air out of him during film rehearsals.

Before the trio ships out, Steven and his girlfriend Angela ( who is pregnant by another man but loved by Steven nonetheless ) marry in an Orthodox wedding.

Austin Powers in Goldmember begins with an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by Steven Spielberg.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that the game theoretic advantages of ethical behavior support the idea that morality is " out there " in a certain sense ( as part of the evolutionary fitness landscape ).

Allmusic reviewer Steven Erlewine rated the album negatively, only giving two out of five stars.

" The Times commented, " Steven Moffat is turning out to be one of the boldest, most inventive, sitcom writers around.

Steven has already laid out a detailed plan which will supply him with a firm alibi.

Steven will then go out for his regular card game, during which time his wife usually stays in and takes a bath.

The phone rings and Steven picks up thinking it's David, but it's a ticketing agent confirming David's train out of the city.

Once on the train and assuming he is safe he opens the bathroom door in his cabin ; Steven lunges out and stabs him.

The scene plays out with the same dialogue, but Steven never physically attacks her.

In 2002, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine producer Ira Steven Behr stated that unlike some plots, which originated from a single small idea, the creation of the Dominion villain and story arc was " very much thought out.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of 4, writing that " director E. Elias Merhige and his writer, Steven Katz, do two things at the same time.

Blood-Horse magazine's Steven Haskin wrote: " Pimlico stakes coordinator David Rollinson had to go out and recruit Preakness Stakes horses when it looked like only six or seven were going to run.

The new ownership wanted to turn the team into a winner for the 1994-95 season so Rutherford went out to the free agent market and signed Jimmy Carson and Steven Rice.

Raven's lackeys, Steven Richards and the Blue Meanie, pulled out a giant wooden cross from under the ring, tied Sandman down to it, and lifted it up and " crucified " him.

Steven Best has coined the term " extensional self-defense " to describe actions carried out in defense of animals by human beings acting as " proxy agents.