Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh Century Byzantium. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012).
DIMITRIS KRALLIS
Associate Professor
Office: AQ 6195
Telephone: 778-782-7625
Email: dkrallis@sfu.ca
Areas of Study: EUROPE.
Biography
Dimitris Krallis holds a doctorate in history from the University of Michigan. He joined the History Department and the Hellenic Studies program at SFU in the fall of 2006 as a Byzantine Historian. His book, Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh-century Byzantium, examines the uses of history and historiography in the context of eleventh-century political and cultural debates by focusing on the work of the judge and historian Michael Attaleiates. In collaboration with professor Anthony Kaldellis at the Ohio State University Dr Krallis translated the History of Michael Attaleiates for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series (Forthcoming fall 2012). He has also completed the first draft of his next book project, which will take readers on a tour of eleventh century Byzantium. At SFU Dr Krallis teaches two surveys of Byzantine history (HIST 308, HIST 317) a course on Byzantine texts (Hist 307) and an upper level seminar (Hist 460) on the Byzantine economy, Byzantine responses to authority and, as of September 2010, War and Society in Byzantium.
Research Interests
Byzantine social and intellectual history.
Publications (Books)
Michael Attaleiates: History (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library – Harvard University Press, 2012), with Anthony Kaldellis
Publications (Articles)
- “Imagining a Community: Global and Regional Perspectives on Hellenism and Islam,” with Thomas Kuehn, in Krallis D. and Kuehn T., ed. Journal of Modern Hellenism - Hellenism and Islam: Global and Historical Perspectives (Winter 2010-2011): ix-xvii
- “Harmless satire, stinging critique: a new reading of the Timarion,” in Angelov D. and Saxby M. ed., Byzantium Behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion (Forthcoming, Fall 2012, Ashgate/Variorum)
- “‘Democratic’ Action in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Michael Attaleiates’ ‘Republicanism’ in Context,” Viator 40 No. 2 (Fall 2009): 35-53
- “Sacred Emperor, Holy Patriarch: A New Reading of the Clash between Emperor Isaakios I Komnenos and Patriarch Michael Keroularios in Attaleiates’ History,” Byzantinoslavica 67 (2009): 169-190
- “Michael Attaleiates as a Reader of Psellos” in Barber Ch. ed., Reading Michael Psellos (Leiden, 2006): 167-191
- “The army that crossed two frontiers and established a third: the uses of the frontier by an eleventh-century Byzantine author” inFrontières au moyen âge - Frontiers in the Middle Ages of the F.I.D.E.M. series Textes et études du moyen âge (2006): 335-348
Reviews
- GILL PAGE, Being Byzantine: Greek Identity before the Ottomans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, Journal of Hellenic Studies 131 (2011): 286-287
- YOUVAL ROTMAN, Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2009, Speculum 86.1 (2011): 266-268
- MARCUS RAUTMAN, Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire. (The Greenwood Press “Daily Life through History” Series.) Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2006, Speculum 83 (April 2008): 474-475
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
Byzantine history, historiography, economic, social, and political history of the Middle Byzantine world.
Teaching Interests
Byzantine social, economic, political, military and intellectual history.