Caroline Bruzelius

Caroline Bruzelius is a scholar of medieval architecture, urbanism, and sculpture.  She has written extensively on religious architecture in France and Italy.  In 2014 she published Preaching, Building and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City (Yale University Press), a book on how the mendicant orders introduced new religious practices (preaching outdoors, visiting laymen in domestic spaces, and burying laymen inside churches), that profoundly transformed the  spaces of city and the design of churches.   Two new book projects are on the financing of cathedrals and the role of architecture in the longue durée of the Kingdom of Sicily.   Bruzelius is deeply committed to exploring how digital technologies communicate narratives about the built environment.  She is a founding member of the “Wired!” group at Duke University that integrates new technologies with teaching and multi-year research initiatives.  She is also a co-founder of Visualizing Venice.  She is former Director of the American Academy in Rome, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous awards in the United States and abroad.

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