with Michael Ironside. In 1985, he played Young Kevin in the film adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel of the same name, Joshua Then And Now. His most notable on-camera role, however, was in the 1988 horror film, PIN, in which he played Young Leon alongside Terry O'Quinn. Overall, Bednarski's work in the Canadian entertainment industry spanned two decades. In 2002, he received a SSHRC postdoctoral grant which prevented him from working outside of academia and he officially retired as an actor. Education Bednarski began his education in 1985 at Loyola High School, Montreal, a Jesuit private school for boys with a strong Liberal Arts tradition. At the time, the school still required students to study Latin for the first two years of their secondary school education. Subsequently, upon moving from Montreal to Toronto, he attended Glendon College, the bilingual (French and English) campus of York University, Toronto. There, he received an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Linguistics, and studied under Andrée Courtemanche, a French-Canadian medieval historian. After working with Courtemanche's historical records from Provence, Bednarski began his MA studies in the History Department at the University of Toronto on a full scholarship from the Province of Ontario. Upon graduation from this MA program, Bednarski attended the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where he pursued doctoral studies under the co-supervision of Michel Hébert and Andrée Courtemanche. His doctoral research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). In the fourth and final year of his doctoral studies, Bednarski was invited to apply for, and subsequently received, a prestigious SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Research Late Medieval Provençal Criminal History Bednarski's MA, PhD, and Postdoctoral research was derived from and largely based upon a large-scale study of thousands of criminal registers conserved from the Provençal town of Mansoque. His PhD thesis, entitled "Crime, justice et régulation sociale à Manosque, 1340–1403" ("Crime, Justice and Social Régulation in Manosque, 1340–1403") is based on the approach of social history and looks at how ordinary people used a local municipal court to resolve disputes and advance their own agendas, even as the court worked to establish its legitimacy over daily life. This research became the basis for Bednarski's first monograph, Curia: A Social History of a Court, Crime, And Conflict, published through the Presses Universitaires de la