Nikolaos Chrissis

Nikolaos G. Chrissis studied History & Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1996-2000). He received his M.A. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from King’s College London (2001) and his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London (2008).

He has taught medieval history at the universities of London (Royal Holloway), Birmingham, and Crete. In 2012-2015 he carried out EU-funded postdoctoral research at the Department of History & Archaeology of the University of Athens. Since 2014, he is also an Associate Lecturer for the “Studies in European Civilization” Programme of the Hellenic Open University. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace in 2018.

His main research interests and publications revolve around the history of the Crusades, Latin presence in Greek lands, Byzantine-Western relations, papal policy in the Levant (11^th-15^th c.), and generally intercultural contacts in the medieval Mediterranean.

He is also Associate Editor of the journal Crusades (Routledge) and a committee member and Bulletin Editor of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE).

He is the author of Crusading in Frankish Greece: A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1282 (Turnhout, 2012), as well as co-editor of Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (Farnham, 2014), and of Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality, 11^th-15^th c. (Routledge, 2019). He has also been invited to contribute chapters to collective volumes such as: The Brill Companion to Latin Greece, The Cambridge History of the Crusades, The New Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, και The Cambridge Companion toChristian Heresy.