Dr Benni Campoleoni
Teaching and Research Fellow in Medieval History
Contact details
- Email: benni.campoleoni@ed.ac.uk
Address
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Room 1M.10 Doorway 4 (William Robertson Wing) Old Medical Shool
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Availability
Student drop-in hours on Tuesday, 10AM-12PM, room 1M.10 William Robertson Wing.
Background
After completing an undergraduate degree in Applied Languages at the University of Padua (2013–2016) and an MSc in Medieval Literatures and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh (2017–2018), I remained in Edinburgh to undertake a PhD titled: 'De çivaler eo deveni poltron': gender, mobility, and the 'social logic' of the Geste Francor (MS Marc. Fr. Z 13 [=256]) (2019-2025, part-time; awarded in October 2025). In September 2026, I was appointed Teaching and Research Fellow in Medieval History.
Undergraduate teaching
Medieval Worlds: a Journey through the Middle Ages (pre-Honours)
The History of Edinburgh: from Eidyn to Festival City (pre-Honours)
Historical Skills and Methods I, Pathway "History, Literature, and Imagination: French epic literature as case study" (Honours core course)
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 (3rd-year elective)
Damnation and Redemption in the Medieval World: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio (4th-year special subject)
Postgraduate teaching
Historical Methodology, Pathway "The Sources of Medieval History I: Manuscripts and Writing"
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
Area:
- Europe and the Mediterranean
Subjects:
- Gender
- Spatiality
- History of Imagination
Conference details
Society for the Medieval Mediterranean Conference 2024, 24th-27th June 2024.
Gender and Medieval Studies Group conference 2024, 26th-28th June 2024.
Invited speaker
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (University of Edinburgh) seminar cycle 2024-2025
Organiser
Panel co-organiser :"Urban Conflict" at Leeds International Medieval Congress 2025
Papers delivered
“Gender and movement in a Franco-Italian epic: a space of innovation”
“Epic spaces and spaces of the epic: re-spatialisation of the ideal in the Geste Francor (MS. Marc. Fr. Z 13 (=256))”
“Rethinking the epic ‘male couple’: Bovo and Druxiana in the Franco-Italian Beuve d’Hantone”