Steven Bednarski (born 1973) is a Canadian historian of the Middle Ages who specializes in fourteenth-century environment, crime, sex, gender, and microhistory.

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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.

[2] 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.

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 Méditerranée.

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.

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.

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.

[5] In 2012, Bednarski conducted a sabbatical abroad as Scholar in Residence at Queen's University's Bader International Study Centre (BISC) at Herstmonceux Castle.

With those funds, Bednarski created a large number of training opportunities for Canadian students to live, study, and work in the UK.