Jessica L. Minieri is a PhD Candidate working on the interplay of gender, violence, and political expansion in the late medieval Mediterranean.

Her dissertation, Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Imprisonment, Abduction, and the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon, 1280-1490, traces the captivity of a collection of Mallorcan and southern Italian royals in Aragon’s transformation into a maritime empire between the War of the Sicilian Vespers and the union of Castile and Aragon.

Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean, southern Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula.