Word: sevcenko
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Besides his current research at Harvard, Sevcenko also advises four graduate students on their Byzantium-related theses, as well as teaches seminars on Byzantine texts and a popular freshman seminar on the fall of Constaninople...
...Sevcenko says, recalling the reasoning for his career choice, "classical philology was an activity in which you were more like a curator in a wonderful museum, rather than a person who can count on the excitement of discoveries with any chance for success...
...Sevcenko, as it turns out, has done much more, and in doing so he has won a reputation as an unusually broad-based scholar not only with skills in analyzing the Byzantine Greek and Latin texts, but also in linguistics, understanding the nature of manuscripts, and historical analysis...
...Sevcenko would probably be pleased with this description, as he explains, "I dabble in various aspects of the Byzantine history and literature," adding, "The easiest way of combining them is through intellectual history--first, in the sense of what went into the heads of the Byzantine elite." Having spent many years analyzing the first tier and its complexities. Sevcenko says that he is now studying the thinking of the so-called "second tier" of citizens below the elite--the sort "that determines the character of an epoch...
...attacking these sorts of problems, the scholar has almost never taken a "survey" approach like many scholars in the field, as attested by Sevcenko himself and his colleagues. "What's odd is that he covers a vast range of material, and he almost always comes at it from a particular source," says Constable...