Dimitris Krallis ( gr, Δημήτρης Κράλλης) is a Greek historian who is Professor of Humanities and
Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...
.
Biography
Dimitris Krallis was born in
Athens
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,
Greece
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where he attended
Athens College
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and the
University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...
. At the University of Athens he studied political theory and inspired by his professors of history, decided to apply for a graduate degree in
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
Studies. He attended the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
where he studied Byzantine social and political history. After an interruption of four years dedicated to military service and to teaching at the
American College of Greece
The American College of Greece (ACG) is a private college and high school in Agia Paraskevi, Greece. It was founded by United Church of Christ American missionaries in 1875. It was originally a primary and secondary school for girls. As of 2020, ...
in Athens, he moved to the US and the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
for his doctorate. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty at
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...
where he is Professor of Humanities and Director at the
Stavros Niarchos
Stavros Spyrou Niarchos ( el, Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος, ; 3 July 1909 – 15 April 1996) was a Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both ...
Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies.
Books and Book-length translations
* ''Serving Byzantium's Emperors: The Courtly Life and Career of
Michael Attaleiates Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates ( grc-gre, Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης, Michaḗl Attaleiátēs, ; – 1080) was a Byzantine Greek chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the ...
'', New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Series, New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.
* ''
Michael Attaleiates Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates ( grc-gre, Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης, Michaḗl Attaleiátēs, ; – 1080) was a Byzantine Greek chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the ...
and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh Century Byzantium'' (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012).
* (with
Anthony Kaldellis
Anthony Kaldellis ( gr, Αντώνιος Καλδέλλης; born 29 November 1971) is a Greek historian who is Professor and a faculty member of the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. He is a specialist in Greek historiography, ...
) ''
Michael Attaleiates Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates ( grc-gre, Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης, Michaḗl Attaleiátēs, ; – 1080) was a Byzantine Greek chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the ...
: History'' (Washington, DC:
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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–
Harvard University Press
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, 2012) – a translation
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
* "Time, Space, and Physical Reality: Byzantine Authors and the Materiality of the Roman Imagined Community," V. N. Vlyssidou ed., Byzantine Authors and their Times (Athens: NHRF, 2021), 179-198
* “The Social Views of Michael Attaleiates,” in James Howard-Johnston ed., Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 44-61
* “Liquid Memories: Oceanic Allusions and Greek Imagery in the Forum of Constantine” in S. Günther, Li Qiang, C. Sode, S. Wahlgren, and Zhang Qiang eds., Byzantium in China: Studies in Honour of Professor Xu Jialing on the Occasion of her Seventieth Birthday - Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Civilizations (2019), 31–47.
* “Popular Political Agency in Byzantium’s Village and Towns” ''Byzantina Symmeikta'' 28 (2018), 11–38.
* “Historiography as Critical Contemporary Commentary” in A. Kaldellis and N. Siniossoglou ed., ''Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium'' (Cambridge, 2017), 599–614.
* “Historians, Politics, and the Polis in the Eleventh and twelfth Centuries” in B. Flusin and J.-C. Cheynet eds., Autour du Premier humanisme byzantin & des Cinq études sur le XIe siècle, quarante ans après Paul lemerle
ravaux et Mémoires 21.2(Paris: Collège de France – CNRS, 2017), 419–48.
* “Imagining Rome in Medieval Constantinople: Memory, Politics, and the Past in the Middle Byzantine Period, ” B. Weiler and P. Lambert eds., How the Past was Used: Historical Cultures c. 750-2000 (Oxford: The British Academy, 2017), 49–68.
* “Urbane Warriors: Smoothing out tensions between soldiers and civilians in Attaleiates’ encomium to Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates,” in M. D. Lauxtermann and M. Whittow eds., Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: Being in Between (London, 2017), 154-168.
* “Greek Glory, Constantinian Legend: Praxagoras’ Athenian Agenda in Zosimos’ New History,” Journal of Late Antiquity 7.1 (Spring 2014), 110-130.
* “The outsider’s gaze: Reflections on Recent Non-byzantinist Readings of Byzantine History and on their implications for our field,” Byzantina Symmeikta 23 (2013), 183–99.
* “The ‘Critic’s’ Byzantine Ploy: Voltairian Confusion in Post-secularist narratives” Boundary 2 vol. 40, no. 1 (Spring 2013), 223–43.
* “Harmless satire, stinging critique: a new reading of the Timarion,” in Angelov D. and Saxby M. ed., Power and Subversion in Byzantium (Ashgate/Variorum, 2013), 221–45.
* with Thomas Kuehn, “Notes from the Guest Editors,” in Krallis D. and Kuehn T., ed. Journal of Modern Hellenism - Hellenism and Islam: Global and Historical Perspectives (Winter 2010–2011), ix- xvi.
* “‘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): 169-90.
* “Michael Attaleiates as a Reader of Psellos” in Barber Ch. ed., Reading Michael Psellos (Leiden, 2006), 167–91.
* “The army that crossed two frontiers and established a third: the uses of the frontier by an eleventh-century Byzantine author” in Frontières au moyen âge - Frontiers in the Middle Ages of the F.I.D.E.M. series Textes et études du moyen âge (2006), 335–48.
Videos
* Dr. Dimitris Krallis interview with
ERT (Dec. 6, 2019) (in Greek)
* Army commanders as managers of demotic power in Byzantium, SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU
* In Conversation: Professor Dimitris Krallis on the Continuity of Greek Thought
Sources
Dimitris Krallis - SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies - Simon Fraser University30. Byzantium in modern Greek life (Listener Questions I), with Dimitris Krallis10. A Byzantine man of affairs, with Dimitris KrallisDimitris Krallis , Simon Fraser University - Academia.edu
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Living people
Greek emigrants to the United States
Greek emigrants to Canada
Greek Byzantinists
Historians of antiquity
Simon Fraser University faculty
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
University of Michigan alumni
Writers from Athens
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scholars of Byzantine history