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Runciman, Steven.
The Great Church in Captivity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1968
Stock Code: 15465
First Edition. Octavo, pp., x, 455. Publisher’s maroon cloth with gilt title on a black label to spine in an unclipped, scarlet red dust-jacket. Minor edgewear to upper edge of dust-jacket and some light tanning to rear of dust-jacket, otherwise a near fine copy. An examination of the state of the Great Church leading up to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Runciman was a pupil of author Aldous Huxley, and a close friend of Eric Blair (George Orwell). £50.00