Jessica Minieri
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PhD candidate Binghamton University • Research Resident (25-26), La Capraia (Naples🇮🇹) • Editor H-Sicily • Studying the histories of gender, imprisonment, & empire in the lands of the Crown of Aragon • she/her https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
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Fantastic news! I am so excited to announce that I have been awarded a Predoctoral Residential Fellowship at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (La Capraia) in Naples, Italy for the 2025-2026 academic year!

This is a dream come true! 🥳
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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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Check your inbox, my article has also arrived! ☺️
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Got to see the funerary monument of Queen Mary of Hungary at Chiesa di Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia in Naples. 🤩

The best part is the image of her three sons, all captives of the Crow of Aragon in the late thirteenth century: Louis of Toulouse, Robert “the Wise” of Naples, and Raymond Berengar
The funerary monument of Mary of Hungary Raymond Berengar Robert “the Wise” Louis of Toulouse
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This looks great!

Wish this was out when I taught my course on prisons too!
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It really is! The Archivio di Stato really is excellent, definitely worth a visit
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Also finally saw this painting in person for the first time 🤩. Seeing it up close and all of its details was incredible.
The full painting that shows many of the sites of Naples that are still there: Castle Nuovo, the Church of Santa Chiara, and many others. The full painting The Bay of Naples, 1465 Painting of Naples after the Battle of Ischia, 1465.
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Naples really is so beautiful 🤩

So grateful to get to work on southern Italy and the Mediterranean.
View of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples View of the Bay of Naples, the city, and Vesuvius.
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The Angevin emblems on San Gennaro’s bust reliquary have some interesting and striking resemblances to other relics with dynastic ties from the later Middle Ages around the same time this one was made (14th century).
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Some of my favorite shots from my fellowship so far!

Medievalists + early modernists working on saints and/or Italian history—what works on San Gennaro’s relics and bust reliquary should I be reading?
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