Eilis is a fourth-year PhD candidate who focuses on Medieval Art of the Mediterranean. Her interests include the study of female patronage and representation in fourteenth-century Angevin art and art objects. She is particularly interested in the study of illuminated manuscripts as spaces of gendered devotion and the patronage of Queen Johanna of Naples (1325-82). She received an MA in Art in the Global Middle Ages at the University of Edinburgh (2018) and completed her undergraduate degree at the Università La Sapienza of Rome (2016).
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