Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
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Associate Professor of History of Science
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Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is an Associate Professor of History of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research focuses on the medicinal uses of minerals in the Middle Ages, the cross-cultural transfer of medical knowledge in the medieval Mediterranean, and the significance of various substances as artefacts in history. His recent articles explore topics such as mūmiyāʾ in Byzantium, the dissemination of sugar-based potions from the Islamic World to Byzantium, and the antibacterial properties of certain clays.
Recent Grants
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Making and Consuming Drugs in the Italian and Byzantine Worlds (12th–15th c.)
Open Date: 2019-03-11
Close Date: 2024-03-11
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Experiment and Exchange: Byzantine Pharmacology between East and West (ca. 1150-ca. 1450)
Open Date: 2016-03-10
Close Date: 2019-03-10
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Ibn al-Jazzar's Zad al-musafir (books I and II) - Critical editions of the Arabic original, of Constantinus Africanus' Latin version, of Moses ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation, and of the anonymous Byzantine version Ephodia tou apodemountos.
Open Date: 2016-01-01
Close Date: 2021-12-31
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Byzantine Pharmacology in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: an assessment of its role as an intermediary between oriental and western pharmacological traditions
Open Date: 2012-09-23
Close Date: 2012-10-22
Articles (3)
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2024
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2021
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2020
Collaborators (1)
Effie Photos-Jones
University of Glasgow
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