A specialist in medieval power, Murielle Gaude-Ferragu is a lecturer HDR at University Sorbonne Paris Nord. She has notably devoted her research to women in power through the figure of the queen (La reine au Moyen Âge. Le pouvoir au féminin XIVe-XVe siècle, Paris, Tallandier, 2014, a work which received the Dame à la Licorne prize).