I am a historian of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. I studied at the University of Lausanne, where I completed my PhD in medieval history in 2013. The book resulting from this thesis, Rituels dynastiques et mises en scène du pouvoir : le cérémonial princier à la cour de Savoie (1450-1550), was published in 2017. I have also been a research and teaching fellow at the University of Geneva (2015-2021), and a visiting researcher at Université Paris-Est Créteil (2009-2010) and Ghent University (2018-2020). Since 2021, I am professor of medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Neuchâtel.
My research focuses on royal and princely courts of the late Middle Ages, which I study in a historical anthropology perspective (through rituals, family ties, social interactions, etc.). Within this field of research, my current project focuses on encounters between rulers from the Hundred Years’ War to the end of the Italian Wars.
I also work on political communication and displays of power (for instance through printed news reports), as well as on the perception of time at the end of the Middle Ages. Moreover, I am interested in the connections between scholarly and popular culture, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – through fairy tales and cheap prints, for example – as well as in the twenty-first century – through historical tv series.
I am one of the five principal investigators of the Capturing the Present project, where I am in charge of work-package number two: Events as milestones in the conception of time. Together with Jan Blanc (University of Lausanne), I am currently working on a book entitled Ego-events and individual calendars: the emergence of personal dates.