Word: sevcenko
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When President Reagan delivers a speech, Thor Sevcenko notes, nobody assumes he wrote it himself...
...matter of fact, for more than 300 years, Sevcenko says, scholars have generally thought that a 10th-century manuscript chronicling the life of Basil, a ninth-century Byzantine emperor, was written by the ruler's grandson, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus...
However, as Sevcenko begins putting on the finishing touches to 10 years worth of on-and-off editing and translating of that particular text, he adds that the conventional wisdom is apparently wrong...
...world's foremost authorities on the culture of the Byzantine Empire, which lasted from the fall of Rome (476) to the fall of Constantinople in 1452. Sevcenko has spent most of his adult life conducting such types of scholarly detective work...
...fact, for almost all of his adult life, Sevcenko has been digging through the labyrinthine texts and manuscripts of the age, starting with his coming of age in wartime Eastern Europe 40 years...