Past Member
Ihor Ševcenko
Affiliation
Historical Studies
From the American Philosophical Society:
Ihor Sevcenko was educated in Classics and Byzantine Studies in Warsaw, Prague, Louvain and Brussels. He specializes in Byzantine cultural history, hagiography, Byzantine text editions, Byzantino-Slavic cultural relations, Byzantine epigraphy and Greek palaeography. Among his early publications in the field is Études sur la polémique entre Théodore Métochite et Nicéphore Choumnos (1962). His collections of essays include Society and Intellectual Life in Late Byzantium (1981), Ideology, Letters and Culture in the Byzantine World (1982) and Byzantium and the Slavs in Letters and Culture (1991). His recent work includes Ukraine between East and West (1996, Ukrainian ed., 2001)…
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
Degrees
Louvain University
D.Phil.
1949
Prague University
D.Phil.
1945
Honors
AAAS
Accad Arti di Palermo
Am Philos Soc
Corr Member Austrian Ak de W
Fellow Mediaeval Acad Amer