Dr Benni Campoleoni

Teaching and Research Fellow in Medieval History

Biography

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”

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