Beatrice del Bo teaches Economic and Social History of the Middle Ages and Didactics of History at the University of Milan. She is a member of the scientific boards of national and international scientific journals dealing with the Middle Ages and of funded international and national research groups in two areas: natural resources and their exploitation, and discrimination, inequality and the protection of human rights. She is also a Referee of the Department of Historical Studies for gender policies and for people with DSA and disabilities, and a member of the University Teacher Training Centre.
Her current research interests focus on material culture: in particular, lighting in the pre-industrial age; and gender history and discriminatory language, including iconography (foreigners, poor people, workers, slaves, women) in the Middle Ages. She works together with the University of Milan’s Museum of Anthropological, Medical and Forensic Sciences for Human Rights (MUSA), directed by Cristina Cattaneo, and with the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and Activities – Historical-Artistic Heritage and Cultural Sites Management for the enhancement of medieval castles in the Valle d’Aosta Region. In 2010, she won the Carbone Prize.
Her publications in the field of visual history include:
- L’età del lume. Una storia della luce nel Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2023.