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Medieval Architecture & Sculpture, History of France & Italy
Architectural History
Medieval, Renaissance, and Islamic Art

medieval architecture and urbanism; medieval sculpture

Current projects:

the architecture of the Franciscans and Dominicans, death and burial in the medieval city

Area of Interest: monastic architecture and planning
city planning
death and burial in the middle ages
mendicant architecture

Caroline Bruzelius received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her field of research is Gothic architecture and sculpture in France and Italy. Her books include The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343 (Yale University Press, 2004) and in Italian translation as Le Pietre di Napoli: le chiese del Regno di Napoli 1266-1343 (Rome, 2005); The Thirteenth Century Church at Saint Denis (Yale University Press, 1985),  The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art at Duke University  (1991) and The Architecture of the Cistercians in the Early Thirteenth Century.  She was awarded the Duke Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985. From 1994 to 1998 she served as Director of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Caroline Bruzelius and Professor Donatella Calabi of Venice International University offer jointly a summer seminar in Venice for advanced graduate students in the Humanities. http://www.univiu.org/graduate/summerinstitute

Education:

• PhD Yale University 1977

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343. Yale University Press, London, (January, 2004). (in Italian as: Le Pietre di Napoli, 2005)
2. Francesco Aceto and Alessandra Periccioli-Saggese. Campania Gotica. Jaca Books, Milan, (2007).
3. "The Architectural Context of Santa Maria Donna Regina." The Church of Sta. Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr.  (2004): 79-92. (a joint volume on the convent church)
4. C. Goodson. "The Abbey in the Middle Ages." Walls and Memory. The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond. Edited by Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline J. Goodson, Margaret L. Laird and Stephanie C. Leone.  (2005): 72-113.
5. "'Le pietre sono parole.' Charles II d'Anjou, Filippo Minutolo e la Cathedrale Angevine de Naples." Le monde des cathedrales, Paris Editions du Louvre  (2004).
6. Review of Daniel H. Weiss. "Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis." Speculum  vol. 76 (2001): 813-5.