DrHéléna Diane Marie Lagréou

Héléna D.M. Lagréou is a historian of medieval criminal law and justice, with a focus on the ius commune (including Roman law), canon law, and secular legal systems of England, France, and Italy, in their historical and cultural contexts.

She holds a double bachelor’s degree in History and in Art History/Archaeology (2017), and a master’s degree 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). From 2021 onwards, she pursued her doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof John H. Arnold at the University of Cambridge with a thesis titled: ‘The Imaginaire of Capital Punishment in England, France, and Italy, 1250-1350.’ She now holds the position of Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin on the project ‘Fluid texts and scholars’ digests: (re)production of law in medieval Ireland (FLEXI)’, with Dr Fangzhe Qiu as Principal Investigator.