Jessica Minieri
@jessicaminieri.bsky.social
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/
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?
#skystorians
#skystorians
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?
#skystorians
#skystorians
If you’re in Portland this week for SCSC conference, please stop by two panels Héctor Linares Gonzalez & I have co-organized on saints, relics, and religious self-fashioning in the Iberian world!
I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels 🥳
I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels 🥳
October 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you’re in Portland this week for SCSC conference, please stop by two panels Héctor Linares Gonzalez & I have co-organized on saints, relics, and religious self-fashioning in the Iberian world!
I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels 🥳
I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels 🥳
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 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
September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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 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
Also finally saw this painting in person for the first time 🤩. Seeing it up close and all of its details was incredible.
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Also finally saw this painting in person for the first time 🤩. Seeing it up close and all of its details was incredible.
Naples really is so beautiful 🤩
So grateful to get to work on southern Italy and the Mediterranean.
So grateful to get to work on southern Italy and the Mediterranean.
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Naples really is so beautiful 🤩
So grateful to get to work on southern Italy and the Mediterranean.
So grateful to get to work on southern Italy and the Mediterranean.
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).
September 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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).
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?
Medievalists + early modernists working on saints and/or Italian history—what works on San Gennaro’s relics and bust reliquary should I be reading?
September 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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?
Medievalists + early modernists working on saints and/or Italian history—what works on San Gennaro’s relics and bust reliquary should I be reading?
Sweet little cat too 🥹
June 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sweet little cat too 🥹
There were a few! Some feral cats now live inside the park. I only saw this one, though!
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There were a few! Some feral cats now live inside the park. I only saw this one, though!
In all, I’m so fortunate to be an historian of southern Italy, excited to return in a few months to do even more in Napoli (and broader Campania + Sicily)!
June 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In all, I’m so fortunate to be an historian of southern Italy, excited to return in a few months to do even more in Napoli (and broader Campania + Sicily)!
The food in Naples and Rome were also incredible 🤩 wish I took more pictures!
June 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The food in Naples and Rome were also incredible 🤩 wish I took more pictures!
Seeing the the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Naples in person for the first time was also so incredible.
Excited to be back in Naples again in September to get to do research next AY!
Excited to be back in Naples again in September to get to do research next AY!
June 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seeing the the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Naples in person for the first time was also so incredible.
Excited to be back in Naples again in September to get to do research next AY!
Excited to be back in Naples again in September to get to do research next AY!
Took a day trip down to Pompeii to see the ruins—what an incredible site! Filled with so much amazing archaeology, history, and cats!
June 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Took a day trip down to Pompeii to see the ruins—what an incredible site! Filled with so much amazing archaeology, history, and cats!
Fantastic research and conference trip to Napoli and Rome the past 2 weeks for the La Capraia conference “Unruly Iconographies.”
June 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Fantastic research and conference trip to Napoli and Rome the past 2 weeks for the La Capraia conference “Unruly Iconographies.”
This Thursday in Naples hosted by the Center for Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (La Capraia):
June 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This Thursday in Naples hosted by the Center for Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (La Capraia):
I should add that this talk will be a sneak peek at an article I'm working on that covers the global history of the relics of Louis of Toulouse between Naples and the Spanish Philippines. Between 1297 and the seventeenth century, Louis's relics traveled around the Spanish Empire.
April 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I should add that this talk will be a sneak peek at an article I'm working on that covers the global history of the relics of Louis of Toulouse between Naples and the Spanish Philippines. Between 1297 and the seventeenth century, Louis's relics traveled around the Spanish Empire.
It’s World Book Day 📖📚✨
Featuring some of my favorites from my visit to the Morgan Library this past summer—plenty of Neapolitan and southern Italian manuscripts to be found there 📖
Featuring some of my favorites from my visit to the Morgan Library this past summer—plenty of Neapolitan and southern Italian manuscripts to be found there 📖
March 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s World Book Day 📖📚✨
Featuring some of my favorites from my visit to the Morgan Library this past summer—plenty of Neapolitan and southern Italian manuscripts to be found there 📖
Featuring some of my favorites from my visit to the Morgan Library this past summer—plenty of Neapolitan and southern Italian manuscripts to be found there 📖
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! 🥳
This is a dream come true! 🥳
March 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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! 🥳
This is a dream come true! 🥳
Thank you so much @ericcalderwood.bsky.social for sending me a copy of your book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. Looking forward to reading and assigning it! 🥳
February 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thank you so much @ericcalderwood.bsky.social for sending me a copy of your book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. Looking forward to reading and assigning it! 🥳
Wrapped up my first time teaching a short Winter Session course on Premodern Italian history this past week. While fitting over 1,000 years in one short course is tough, it was a great way to show students how important the multicultural history of Italy is -- late antique to early modern.
January 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Wrapped up my first time teaching a short Winter Session course on Premodern Italian history this past week. While fitting over 1,000 years in one short course is tough, it was a great way to show students how important the multicultural history of Italy is -- late antique to early modern.
If you're in the University Park, PA area this week, check out Marina Perruca Gracia's talk on Naples in the Spanish Empire!
Marina does fantastic work on Naples and Spain at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid:
Marina does fantastic work on Naples and Spain at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid:
January 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If you're in the University Park, PA area this week, check out Marina Perruca Gracia's talk on Naples in the Spanish Empire!
Marina does fantastic work on Naples and Spain at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid:
Marina does fantastic work on Naples and Spain at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid:
Not too much! Most of mine has been Catalan with some Sicilian/Occitan thrown in. Most of it has looked like this one from the state archive in Palermo:
January 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Not too much! Most of mine has been Catalan with some Sicilian/Occitan thrown in. Most of it has looked like this one from the state archive in Palermo:
My university and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is hosting a conference on queerness, trans identities, and non-binary gender this October. It's hosted by one of my committee members, Bridget Whearty (she's doing great work now on queerness and nuns).
See the full CFP here:
See the full CFP here:
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My university and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is hosting a conference on queerness, trans identities, and non-binary gender this October. It's hosted by one of my committee members, Bridget Whearty (she's doing great work now on queerness and nuns).
See the full CFP here:
See the full CFP here:
The seals on the papal documents are so incredible too!
Working on Alfonso V’s reign really has exposed me to some incredible archival documents, art historical sources, and objects 🤩
Working on Alfonso V’s reign really has exposed me to some incredible archival documents, art historical sources, and objects 🤩
November 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
The seals on the papal documents are so incredible too!
Working on Alfonso V’s reign really has exposed me to some incredible archival documents, art historical sources, and objects 🤩
Working on Alfonso V’s reign really has exposed me to some incredible archival documents, art historical sources, and objects 🤩
Got an exciting batch of documents this morning from Valencia Cathedral Archive. These docs all discuss the history of relics and reliquaries that were given to (or stolen by) the Cathedral in the fifteenth century.
Lots of Borja (Calixtus III) popes and fun stuff here! 🤩
Lots of Borja (Calixtus III) popes and fun stuff here! 🤩
November 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Got an exciting batch of documents this morning from Valencia Cathedral Archive. These docs all discuss the history of relics and reliquaries that were given to (or stolen by) the Cathedral in the fifteenth century.
Lots of Borja (Calixtus III) popes and fun stuff here! 🤩
Lots of Borja (Calixtus III) popes and fun stuff here! 🤩