The Making of The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database. Celebrating Caroline Bruzelius

In 2021 a group of researchers and students on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean toasted ten years of The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project (https://kos.aahvs.duke.edu/): a collection of historical images of medieval monuments in Southern Italy launched in 2011 in order to document the turbulent history of this highly stratified patrimony, images that testify to the cultural richness of the Italian South. Online since October 2016, the project was fostered by Caroline Bruzelius at Duke University (NC) and, if it has become an invaluable research and study tool, it is thanks to her charisma and her indefatigable enthusiasm in the face of new challenges, both of which have helped her become as much a leading light in the world of Digital Humanities as she had already become in the field of medieval architecture. The papers presented in this volume, authored by both scientific collaborators and students, are a tribute to her, to celebrate ten years of the project and ideally to reap the fruit of the ambitious and visionary idea that set it all in train.