Héléna D.M. Lagreou
Héléna D.M. Lagreou holds a double bachelor’s degree in History and in Art History/Archeology (2017) and a master’s degree in Research in History and Anthropology of the Medieval and Modern period (2019) under the supervision of Prof Joseph Morsel from the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. The research project of Héléna Lagréou during her master’s degree was on images of public executions and the metaphor of theatre during the Late Middle Ages. She then professionally trained in bookbinding in the Listel D’Or Atelier in Paris under the supervision of Sophie Quentin (2019-2020). She later opened her research interest to images of medieval Japan during an MPhil at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Dr Ian Astley (2021). Since October 2021 she started her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in medieval History under the supervision of Prof John H. Arnold.
She co-convenes the Cambridge Medieval History Graduate Workshop (https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/medieval-history-graduate-workshop) and the Camedieval blog (https://camedieval.wordpress.com/).
Héléna works on the religious framework of public executions of the late Middle Ages in France, Italy, and England. She aims to show the evolution of the imaginaire surrounding capital punishment composed of both lay and religious discourses.
Stipendiary Temporary Lecturer, “Death in the Middle Ages”, 3rd-year undergraduates, University of East Anglia, September 2023 - February 2024
Guest lecturer of Part I, "B: Introduction to Historical Thinking", Queens' College, The University of Cambridge, January 2024 - March 2024
Supervision of Part I, "Outline 3: Later Medieval Europe, Christ's College, The University of Cambridge, Octobre 2022 - May 2024
‘Sermons et iconographie des manuscrits de droit de la fin du Moyen Âge en France, Angleterre et Italie : discours des modèles religieux et légaux en conflit sur la représentation et le rôle du droit’ (3rd International Workshop of the IUS ILLUMINATUM research Team, Capitular Library, Verona, Italy, September 20th, 2022)
‘Acting and reacting to violence: emotions at public executions’ (ANZAMENS Thirteenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference: ‘Reception and Emotion’, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 27–30 June, 2022)
‘Understanding the ambiguity of violence at public executions’ (Morality, Exemplarity & Emotion in Medieval Insular Texts, c. 700 - c. 1500, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, 17–18 March, 2022)
‘Models of sainthood and capital punishment: informing the agency of participants to public execution in fourteenth century France, Italy, and England’(History Faculty PhD Presentation Day, The University of Cambridge, History Faculty, Cambridge, England, March 4th, 2022)
‘How to solve a two-hundred-year-old controversy in Japanese Muromachi History of the Image with a measurement software’ (The Middle Ages as a Digital Experience, Central European University, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 April, 2022)
‘“I will see you at the execution” or how to participate to an execution during the Late Middle Ages’(Medieval History Graduate Workshop, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, February 3rd, 2022)
‘How to solve a two-hundred-year-old controversy in Japanese Muromachi History of the Image with a measurement software’(The Northern Early Modern Network Annual Conference: Theories, Ideologies and Experiences in the Early Modern World”, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England, 20-21 January, 2022)
‘“Oh, they were so violent back then”: Public executions during the late Middle Ages within their religious and social context’ (Queens’ College MCR-SCR Talks, The University of Cambridge, Queens’ College, Cambridge, England, November 4th, 2022)
‘Episode 38: Héléna et les rituels d’exécutions’ (Passion médiéviste Poadcast, recorded by Fanny Cohen-Moreau, Paris, France, April 8th, 2020)
‘Watch to listen: Images of popular participation during rituals of justice from the 13th to the 15th century’ (Implications of Images Methods in the analysis of medieval and Renaissance images, Columbia University, Reid Hall, Paris, France, 5-7 November, 2018)
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Key publications
"Beyond measure: using using digital humanities to unravel the system of perspective within Japanese images in nara-ehon manuscripts of otogi-zōshi tales".
Lagréou, Héléna D.M. Eikón / Imago 13 (January 1, 2024): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.90223.
"Blaming it on the past: usages of the Middle Ages in contemporary discourses on the death penalty in England".
Lagréou, Héléna D.M. Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit Research Paper Series 2 (Decembre, 2023): 1-12. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-research-unit/dpru-research-paper-series.
“Hung up on Judas: A Case Study on the Pragmatic Usage of Religious Iconography in Legal Manuscripts of the Institutiones”.
Lagréou, Héléna D.M. Eikón / Imago 12 (January 28, 2023): 29–43. https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.83411.
“Similitude? Quelle similitude?” (Similitude ? Which similitude?)
A. Didier, A. Girard, G. Griffart, H. Lagréou, A. Montreuil, J. Morsel, C. Nestoret, G. Texier, in Les carnets du LaMOP, online publication, 15 November 2019
Public history publications
Lagréou, Héléna D.M. "Approaching rituals as a young medieval historian." Beb blog post. Camedieval. Calmgems/Word Press. (2023, February 13).
https://camedieval.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/approaching-rituals-as-a-young-medieval-historian/
Cohen Moreau, Fanny, & Héléna D.M. Lagréou. (2023, February 3). Héléna et les images médiévales japonaises (No. 73) [Audio poadcast episode]. In Passion Médiévistes.
https://passionmedievistes.fr/ep-73-helena-images-moyen-age-japon/
Cohen Moreau, Fanny, & Héléna D.M. Lagréou. (2020, April 8). Héléna et les rituels d'exécutions (No. 38) [Audio poadcast episode]. In Passion Médiévistes.
https://passionmedievistes.fr/ep-38-helena-rituels-dexecutions/