Méditerranée. Microhistory Bednarski's forays into premodern criminal archives and his interest in social history inclined him toward microhistory, a genre of historical writing rooted in narrative tale-telling, which uses a single, telling historical "moment" to unpack a wider world. Microhistorians like Bednarski often use criminal cases which they see as examples of the "exceptional normal," instances in which boundaries are transgressed illicitly, thereby allowing them to trace the counters of the licit. Moreover, they feel that such trial records often contain a wealth of information about everyday life everyday people. This approach is rooted in the Italian tradition established and developed beginning in the 1970s by historians such as Giovanni Levi, Carlo Ginsburg, Edward Muir, and Gene Brucker. The genre famously influenced scholars of French premodern history such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Natalie Zemon Davis. Drawing on his most extensive criminal register from Provence, and building on research first proposed to him and initially developed by Andrée Courtemanche, Bednarski worked collaboratively with his students to write A Poisoned Past: The Life of Times of Margarita de Portu, an Accused Poisoner, which appeared through the University of Toronto Press. This, his second monograph, was the first ever pedagogical microhistory. It tells the tale of a young Provençal woman who suffered from seizures and was accused by her brother-in-law, but subsequently acquitted, of using poison or sorcery to murder her older husband. In the book, Bednarski alternates between tale-telling and interjecting his own authorial voice. He challenges the reader to consider his own role in shaping the narrative and plays with different historical interpretations of the source material. A Poisoned Past was widely reviewed and well received by critics. Its approach and success helped secure for him in 2017 the international D2L Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Late Medieval Environmental History In 2012, Bednarski conducted a sabbatical abroad as Scholar in Residence at Queen's University's Bader International Study Centre (BISC) at Herstmonceux Castle. There, in a partnership he negotiated between his own institution, the BISC, and Queen's University, he developed a proposal for a research partnership that began to explore the relationship between climate change, land use, and settlement on the Herstmonceux estate. In 2013, he applied for and received four-years of seed funding in the form of a $200,000 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (PDG). With those funds,