Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Associate Professor of History of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Byzantine medicine and pharmacology, cross-cultural medical exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, the reception of the classical medical tradition in the Middle Ages, and Greek palaeography. His most recent publications are: Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330) (Oxford University Press, 2020) [Winner, 2021 Prize for Young Historians, International Academy of the History of Science] and ‘Cross-cultural Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Introduction and Dissemination of Sugar-based Potions from the Islamic World to Byzantium,’ Speculum 96.4 (2021): 963-1008 [Winner, 2022 Estes Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine]. He has also (co)-edited Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (Routledge, 2018), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen (Brill, 2019), Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London (Routledge, 2020), and Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2023).