Carrie E. Beneš
Professor of Medieval & Renaissance History
Address Division of Social Sciences, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243 Phone +1 (941) 487 4383 Office ACE 106
Director, Chart Your Course (New College's general education curriculum)
Co-Chair, New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Editor, TMR (The Medieval Review)
Series Editor, Artes liberales (Manchester University Press)
Series Editor, Later Medieval Europe (Brill)
Member, AHA Tuning Project
Author, Urban Legends: Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350 (Penn State Press, 2011)
Editor, A Companion to Medieval Genoa (Brill, 2018)
Translator, Jacopo da Varagine’s Chronicle of Genoa (Manchester Medieval Sources, 2019)
My current project is on Gregorio Dati's La sfera (The World), an early-15c geographical treatise.
The recent COVID-19 epidemic has fundamentally changed people's perspectives on the medieval catastrophe of the Black Death. I've collected a few of my favorite readings on the Black Death and plague in history. Also, during the Spring 2020 lockdown the students in my Death, Hell, & Capitalism: Medieval Italy in the Age of Dante & Petrarch class created an amazing website of their work called Dispatches from the Brigata.