Jessica Minieri

Jessica Minieri is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Binghamton University in upstate New York. Her dissertation project, “Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Imprisonment and Abduction in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, 1200-1415,” focuses on the confinement and forced marriage of royal women in Aragonese Mallorca and Sicily during Aragon’s advancement into the Mediterranean. Jessica’s research interests include the history of the premodern Mediterranean, medieval Spain, the history of imprisonment, and the histories of sexuality and gender.