Joan M. Hussey
Joan Mervyn Hussey Byzantine scholar and historian.[1]
Education
Hussey was educated privately at home, at Trowbridge High School for Girls (now
MA in Modern History in 1925. Following a period of supervision under Sir David Ross, she moved to the University of London and in 1935 completed a PhD supervised by Norman H. Baynes
.
Career
- International Travelling Fellow of the Federation of University Women 1934-5
- Pfeiffer Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge 1935-7
- Assistant Lecturer, Manchester University1937-43
- 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, Royal Holloway College, London 1950-74
- President, British National Committee for Byzantine Studies1961-71
Personal life
During her retirement she was received into the Catholic Church by the noted Jesuit theologian John Coventry.[2] She was unmarried and had no children.
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: a bibliographical note (1951)
- 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)
- Hussey, Joan M. (1986). The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198269014.
- Kathegetria: essays presented to Joan Hussey for her 80th birthday (1988)
- The journals and letters of George Finlay; ed. J.M. Hussey (1995)