Joan Mervyn Hussey MA PhD FSA FRHistS was a British Byzantine

Byzantine

Byzantine usually refers to the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.Byzantine may also refer to:* A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or native Greek during the Middle Ages...

 scholar and historian.

Education

Hussey was educated privately at home, at Trowbridge High School for Girls, and at the Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris. She went on to St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a fourteen and a half acre site on St Margaret's Road, to the North of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 as a women's college, and accepted its first male students in its centenary year in 1986...

, graduating with a BA and (MA

Master of Arts (Oxbridge)

In the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts of these universities are admitted to the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts on application after six or seven years' seniority as members of the university .There is no examination or study required for the degree...

) in Modern History in 1925. Following a period of supervision under Sir David Ross

W. D. Ross

Sir David Ross KBE was a Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics. His best known work is The Right and the Good , and he is perhaps best known for developing a pluralist, deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G.E. Moore's intuitionism...

, she moved to the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 and in 1935 completed a PhD supervised by Norman H. Baynes

Norman H. Baynes

Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes was a noted 20th century British historian of the Byzantine Empire.-Career:Baynes was Professor of Byzantine History at University College London from 1931 until 1942...

.

Career

• International Travelling Fellow of the Federation of University Women 1934-5
• Pfeiffer Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge
  Girton College, Cambridge
  Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was England's first residential women's college, established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. The full college status was only received in 1948 and marked the official admittance of women to the...
  
   1935-7
• Assistant Lecturer, Manchester University 1937-43
• Member of Council, St Hugh's College, Oxford
  St Hugh's College, Oxford
  St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a fourteen and a half acre site on St Margaret's Road, to the North of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 as a women's college, and accepted its first male students in its centenary year in 1986...
  
   1940–6; Honorary Fellow 1968-2006
• Lecturer, Bedford College, London 1943-47; Reader 1947-50
• Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, London
  Royal Holloway, University of London
  Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
  
   1950-74
• President, British National Committee for Byzantine Studies
  Byzantine studies
  Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy, and politics of the Byzantine Empire. The discipline's founder in Germany is considered to be the philologist Hieronymus...
  
   1961-71

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
  John Mauropous was a Byzantine Greek poet, hymnographer and author of letters and orations, living in the 11th century AD.-Life:...
  
  : 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)
• Kathegetria: essays presented to Joan Hussey for her 80th birthday (1988)
• The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (1990)
• The journals and letters of George Finlay
  George Finlay
  George Finlay was a Scottish historian. He was the brother of Kirkman Finlay.Finlay was born at Faversham, Kent, where his Scottish father, Captain John Finlay FRS, an officer in the Royal Engineers, was inspector of government powder mills. His father died in 1802, and his Scottish mother and...
  
  ; ed. J.M. Hussey (1995)