Kenneth M. Setton

Background

Setton, Kenneth M. was born on June 17, 1914 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ezra and Louise (Crossley) Setton.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Boston University, 1936; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Boston University, 1957; postgraduate, University of Chicago, 1936; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1939-1940; A.M., Columbia University, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1941; Doctor Phil. honorary, U. Kiel, Germany, 1979.

Career

Setton"s childhood and adolescence were not easy. He supported himself from the age of 13. Setton received his bachelor"s degree in 1936 as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University.

His dissertation Christian Attitude Toward the Emperor in the Fourth Century was written under the direction of Lynn Thorndike.

He also received honorary degrees from Boston University and the University of Kiel. He claimed that knowledge of languages is the basis of knowledge of historical science, and he spoke Italian, French, German and Catalan, besides his favorites, Latin and classical Greek.

Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work, the four-volume The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. Setton began his teaching career at Boston University and the University of Manitoba.

Then he taught at the University of Pennsylvania between 1950 and 1965, succeeding another medievalist, John L. Louisiana Monte.

In the period between 1965 and 1968 he taught at the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities. After 1968 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He had many concurrent appointments, such as director of the library at the University of Pennsylvania, acting director of the Gennadius Library in Greece and Guggenheim Fellow.

Achievements

• Kenneth M. Setton has been listed as a noteworthy historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Vol. 3: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III

    (This is the third of four volumes which trace the history...)

  • Christian Attitudes Towards the Emperor in the Fourth Century

    ("the parallelism between Christ and the Emperor reached i...)

  • Catalan Domination of Athens, 1311-1388: Mediaeval Academy of America, No. 50

    (Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections)

  • Papacy and the Levant, (1204-1571), Vol. 2: The Fifteenth Century (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 127)

    (The second of 4 vols. which trace the history of the late...)

  • Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society,)

    (Kennth M. Setton provides a brief survey of the Thirty Ye...)

  • Los catalanes en Grecia

    (Orbis. Barcelona. 1985. 20 cm. 255 p. Encuadernación en t...)

  • The Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance
  • The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Vol. 3: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III by Setton, Kenneth M. (1984) Paperback
  • Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society,) by Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1991) Paperback
  • Catalan Domination of Athens, 1311-1388: Mediaeval Academy of America, No. 50
  • The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Volume III. the Sixteenth Century
  • To Vyzantino Upovathro Tes Italikes Anagennese Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance
  • Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society,) by Kenneth Meyer Setton (1991-12-31)
  • (Catalan Domination of Athens, 1311-1388: Mediaeval Academy of America, No. 50) Author: Kenneth Meyer Setton published on (April, 2013)

Membership

Fellow Mediaeval Academy American (president 1971-1972, Haskins medal 1980), Society Macedonian Studies (honorary), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Philosophical Society (John Frederick Lewis prize 1957, 84, 90, vice president 1966-1969, 85-91), American History Association (award for scholarly distinction 1990), Institute Catalan Studies (correspondent), Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Son of; married Josephine W. Swift, September 11, 1941 (deceased August 1967). 1 son, George Whitney Fletcher. Married Margaret T. Henry, January 4, 1969 (deceased March 1987).

Father:

Ezra Setton

Mother:

Louise (Crossley) Setton

Spouse:

Josephine W. Swift

Spouse:

Margaret T. Henry