MILLER, Timothy S.
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1997 CE
#7219
The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.
When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.
2014 CE
#7220
Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.
Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…