Dr Dimitris Kastritsis
Dr Dimitris Kastritsis

Dr Dimitris Kastritsis

BA (Chicago), PhD (Harvard) - Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - dk19@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463055
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914




 

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

  • "Ferīdūn Beg’s Münşeʾātü ’s-Selāṭīn (‘Correspondence of Sultans’) and Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Views of the Political World." Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space. Edited by Dimiter Angelov, Yota Batsaki and Sahar Bazzaz. Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (2013), 91–110.
  • “The Revolt of Şeyh Bedreddin in the Context of the Ottoman Civil War of 1402–13.” Halcyon Days in Crete VII. Political Initiatives “From the Bottom Up” in the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Antonis Anastasopoulos. University of Crete Press (2012), 233–250
  • “Conquest and Legitimacy in the Early Ottoman Empire.” Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World after 1150. Edited by Jonathan Harris, Catherine Holmes, and Eugenia Russell. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford University Press (2012), 221–245
  • "The Trebizond Alexander Romance (Venice Hellenic Institute Codex Gr. 5): The Ottoman Fate of a Fourteenth-century Illustrated Byzantine Manuscript." In Memoriam Angeliki Laiou. Edited by Cemal Kafadar and Nevra Necipoğlu. Journal of Turkish Studies 36 (2011): 103–131
  • Religious Affiliations and Political Alliances in the Ottoman Succession Wars of 1402–1413." Medieval Encounters 13 (2007): 222–242
  • "The ‘Tales of Sultan Mehmed’ (Ahval-i Sultan Mehemmed) in the Context of Early Ottoman Historiography." Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future: The Historiography of the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Emine Fetvacı and Erdem Çıpa. Indiana University Press (in press)

 

 

Administrative Duties

Member of the Institute for Iranian Studies and St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Module Co-ordinator for MH2002

Teaching Duties

Dr Kastritsis offers the following honours courses:


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