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First Name
Jessica
Last Name
Minieri
Country
United States
State
Affiliation
Binghamton University
Website URL
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
Keywords
Medieval, Mediterranean, gender, political history, history of violence, Crown of Aragon, Italy
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MA

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Jessica L. Minieri is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Binghamton University where she studies medieval Mediterranean history. She received her BA in History and Medieval/Early Modern Studies from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her MA in History from Binghamton University.

Her dissertation project, Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Imprisonment, Abduction, and the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon, 1280-1490, explores the histories of captivity, imprisonment, and forced marriage for royals in Aragonese controlled Mallorca and Sicily. This project explores the ways in which Aragonese territorial expansion was connected to the control of the bodies, marriages, and sexuality of royal and aristocratic figures in the Western Mediterranean.

Recent Publications

Book Chapter:

“‘Sickly and Spent’: Reassessing the Life and Afterlife of Anne of Great Britain” in Later Stuart Queens, 1600-1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage edited by Gregory, Eilish and Questier, Michael (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 221-236.

Book Reviews:

Review Article: Minieri, Jessica. “Between Freedom and Unfreedom: Imprisonment and Crime in Premodern Europe.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 31, no. 3 (2024): 520-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2024.2348889.

Kagay, Donald and Andrew Villalon, eds., Conflict in Fourteenth Century Iberia: Aragon Vs. Castile and the War of the Two Pedros (Leiden: Brill, 2021). American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, 2024.

Brolis, Maria Teresa. Stories of Women in the Middle Ages. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Published in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (51), 2020.

Dodd, Gwilym and Taylor, Craig, ed., Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod. York: York Medieval Press, 2020. History: Journal of the Historical Association 2021.

Dominguez, Rodrigo da Costa and Amélia Aguiar Andrade, eds., Portugal in a European Context: Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, 1100–1700 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) [H-Portugal].

Fleming, Gillian B. Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth Century Castile. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Published in Royal Studies Journal, 7(2), 154–155.

Mielke, The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Royal Studies Journal, 9(1), pp.90–91.

Pangonis, Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021). Royal Studies Journal, 8(2), pp.226–227.

Sarti, Cathleen. Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2020. Royal Studies Journal 8(1), 195–196.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Iberia, Italy, and Southern France
Expertise by Geography
France, Mediterranean, Spain, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval, Pre-17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women