Dr Dimitris Kastritsis
Dr Dimitris Kastritsis

Dr Dimitris Kastritsis

BA (Chicago), PhD (Harvard) - RCUK Academic Fellow (Ottoman Empire)

 
Contact Details

E-mail - dk19@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463055
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927




 

Teaching and Research Interests

My research interests focus primarily on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the fourteenth and fifteenth century Ottoman world, a field that overlaps considerably with the history of late Byzantium, Latin Greece, and the larger post-Mongol Middle East. I have a special interest in chronicles and other historical texts, and the intellectuals and ideas behind them. My teaching stretches from Late Antiquity to modern times, especially Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East. I am currently working on a project that aims to provide a comprehensive account of the political and intellectual culture of the early Ottoman world in the century preceding the conquest of Constantinople.

Main Publications

Books

  • The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-1413. Brill, 2007. [Details] Turkish edition Istanbul, Kitap Yayinevi, 2010.
  • The Tales of Sultan Mehmed, Son of Bayezid Khan, Annotated English Translation, Turkish Edition, and Facsimilies.. Sources of Oriental Languages and Literatures 78. Harvard NELC, 2007 [actually published 2009].

Articles

  • Religious Affiliations and Political Alliances in the Ottoman Succession Wars of 1402-1413." Medieval Encounters 13 (2007): 222-242
  • “The Revolt of Şeyh Bedreddin in the Context of the Ottoman Civil War of 1402–13.” Political Initiatives ‘From the Bottom Up’ in the Ottoman Empire: Halcyon Days in Crete 7. Edited by Antonis Anastasopoulos. University of Crete Press (in press)
  • “Conquest and Legitimacy in the Early Ottoman Empire.” Between Byzantines and Turks: Understanding the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean World. Edited by Catherine Holmes and Jonathan Harris. Oxford University Press (in press)

 

 

Administrative Duties

Member of the Institute for Iranian Studies and St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Teaching Duties

Dr Kastritsis offers the following honours course:


Research Students

I am happy to supervise students in the following areas:

Ottoman history before the nineteenth century
Late Byzantine history
The mediaeval and early modern Islamic world

 

Main Publications


The Tales of Sultan Mehmed