John the Physician's Therapeutics
Biographical note
Barbara Zipser, Dr. Phil. (2003) in Latin and Greek, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, works on a Wellcome Trust funded project at Royal Holloway University of London. She has published on Greek and Arabic medicine and on the history of books.
Readership
All those interested in Medieval medicine, the formation of Demotic Greek, digital humanities and the history of books.
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