Joan Mervyn Hussey (5 June 1907 in

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– 20 February 2006 in

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, Surrey) was a British

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scholar and historian.Obituary by Julian Chrysostomides, ''The Independent'', 17 March 2006, accessed 31 May 2012
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Education

Hussey was educated privately at home, at Trowbridge High School for Girls (now

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), and at the Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris. She went on to St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a BA and MA in Modern History in 1925. Following a period of supervision under Sir David Ross, she moved to the

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and in 1935 completed a PhD supervised by

Norman H. Baynes Norman Hepburn Baynes (1877–1961) was a 20th-century British historian of the Byzantine Empire. Career Baynes was Professor of Byzantine History at University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve t ...

Career

*International Travelling Fellow of the Federation of University Women 1934-5 *Pfeiffer Research Fellow,

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1935-7 *Assistant Lecturer,

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1937-43 *Member of Council, St Hugh's College, Oxford 1940–6; Honorary Fellow 1968-2006 *Lecturer, Bedford College, London 1943-47; Reader 1947-50 *Professor of History,

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1950-74 *President, British National Committee for

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1961-71

Personal life

During her retirement she was received into the

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by the noted Jesuit theologian John Coventry.Anthony Bryer: ''Hussey, Joan Mervyn (1907–2006)'', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2010, accessed 31 May 2012
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Publications

*''Church & Learning in the Byzantine Empire, 867-1185'' (1937) *''The Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century: some different interpretations'' (1950) *''The writings of

John Mauropous John Mauropous ( el, , ''Iōánnēs Maurópous'', lit. "John Blackfoot") was an Eastern Roman poet, hymnographer, and author of letters and orations, who lived in the 11th century. Life John Mauropous was born in Paphlagonia around 1000. He ...

: a bibliographical note'' (1951) *George Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky, George Ostrogorsky, ''History of the Byzantine state''; tr. Joan Hussey (1956; 2nd ed. 1968; rev. ed. 1969) *Nicholas Cabasilas, ''A commentary on the Divine Liturgy''; tr. J.M. Hussey and P.A. McNulty (1960) *''The Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. IV, The Byzantine Empire''; ed. J.M. Hussey (new ed. 1966-7) *''The Byzantine World'' (1957; 2nd ed. 1961; 3rd ed. 1967) *''Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, 5–10 September 1966'';ed. J.M. Hussey, D. Obolensky, and S. Runciman (1967) *''Ascetics and Humanists in eleventh-century Byzantium'' (1970) *''The Finlay papers'' (1973) * *''Kathegetria: essays presented to Joan Hussey for her 80th birthday'' (1988) *''The journals and letters of George Finlay''; ed. J.M. Hussey (1995)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hussey, Joan 1907 births 2006 deaths Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Alumni of the University of London Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge People from Trowbridge Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London 20th-century British historians 20th-century British women writers Fellows of the Royal Historical Society British women historians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London