Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos FRHistS is a Greek historian of medicine, author, and academic. He is the author of Innovation in Byzantine medicine.

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos FRHistS
Occupation(s)	Historian of medicine, Classicist, author
Years active	2015-present
Awards	The Prize for Young Historians by the International Academy of the History of Science
Academic background
Education	BA, MPharm, MSt, PhD
Alma mater	King’s College London, University of Oxford, University of Athens
Academic work
Discipline	History of Medicine
Sub-discipline	History of ancient medicine
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Notable works	Innovation in Byzantine medicine (2020, OUP)

Biography

Bouras-Vallianatos studied pharmacy at the University of Athens and classics and ancient history at King's College London. He then studied late antique and Byzantine history and literature at the University of Oxford, before earning a doctorate in the History of Medicine at King’s College London. From 2015 to 2019, Bouras-Vallianatos held a Wellcome Research Fellowship at King’s College London, and from 2019 to 2022, he held a Wellcome Lectureship in the history of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 2021, he was awarded the Prize for Young Historians by the International Academy of the History of Science for his book Innovation in Byzantine medicine. In Septemter 2022, Bouras-Vallianatos became associate professor of history of science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds the honorary fellowship in history at the University of Edinburgh, and he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Bouras-Vallianatos serves as the senior editor of the series "Global Histories of Premodern Health and Healing" by the Edinburgh University Press.

Select publications

Articles

• Venieri, Danae, Iosifina Gounaki, George E. Christidis, Charles W. Knapp, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, and Effie Photos-Jones. "Bridging the gaps: bole and Terra Sigillata as artefacts, as simples and as antibacterial clays." Minerals 10, no. 4 (2020): 348. doi:10.3390/min10040348
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. "Galen in Late Antique medical handbooks." Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen (2019).
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. "Modelled on Archigenes theiotatos: Alexander of Tralles and his Use of Natural Remedies (physika)." mnemosyne 69, no. 3 (2016): 382–396. doi:10.1163/1568525X-12341857
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. "Galen’s reception in Byzantium: Symeon Seth and his refutation of Galenic theories on human physiology." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55, no. 2 (2015): 431–469.
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. "Greek Manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A Descriptive Catalogue." Medical History 59, no. 2 (2015): 275. doi:10.1017/mdh.2015.6
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. "Clinical experience in late antiquity: Alexander of Tralles and the therapy of epilepsy." Medical History 58, no. 3 (2014): 337–353. doi:10.1017/mdh.2014.27

Books

• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. Innovation in Byzantine medicine: the writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c. 1275-c. 1330). Oxford University Press, 2020.
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, and Barbara Zipser, eds. Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2019.

Book chapters and editing

• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, and Dionysios Stathakopoulos, eds. Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, and Sophia Xenophontos, eds. Greek Medical Literature and Its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Vol. 20. Routledge, 2018.
• Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. "Simon of Genoa’s Clavis sanationis: a Study of Thirteenth-Century Latin Pharmacological Lexicography." Simon of Genoa’s Medical Lexicon (2013): 31–48.