Book Presentation: Medicine and Hospitals in Byzantium

George C. Papageorgiou, Medicine and Hospitals in Byzantium, through the life of a 12th Century physician. Los Angeles (St Sebastian Press) 2025. A Byzantine physician recounts his life in 12th century Constantinople during the peak of the Byzantine Empire’s heyday, describing the healthcare system, the hospitals and the level of medical science of his time, while making reference to the history of Greek and Greco Roman medicine, of which byzantine medicine constitutes an unbroken continuation and evolution.