Milada Paulová and her Byzantine world. Contribution to the relationship between M. Paulová and J. Hussey
Milada Paulová and her Byzantine world. Contribution to the relationship between M. Paulová and J. Hussey

Summary/Abstract: Historian and Byzantologist M. Paulov· (1891-1970) devoted her professional career and scientific work to the history of southeast Europe, particularly the South Slavic world. She mainly dealt with the modern period (World War I and Czech-South Slavic relations) and the Middle Ages (the history of Byzantine Empire). Of great importance in Paulov·¥s life was her meeting J. Bidlo, Professor of the medieval history at Charles University in Prague. M. Paulov· defended her habilitation thesis on general history of Eastern Europe and the Balkans at Prague Philosophical Faculty in 1925 and became the first female Docent in Czechoslovakia. Ten years later, in 1935 she became the first extraordinary female Professor and was granted full professorship in 1945 ex post from 1939. As a Professor of Byzantology at Charles University in Prague, she wrote many worldrenowned studies. As the editor of the journal Byzantinoslavica, she deserved credit for its post-war revival and its reputation as an international journal, and also for the Byzantological bibliography that it included. She established numerous professional contacts with Byzantologists all over the world, at the first place with Professor Joan Mervyn Hussey, the famous English Byzantologist as evidenced by correspondence and Paulov·¥s ìMemoirsî, which she started writing in 1962 at the impetus of her friend ìJennieî. The article analyses the relationship between Paulov· and Hussey just after Second World War on the basis of several unpublished Hussey¥s letters written in the years 1946-1949.

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