**About the Editor**

**Mirko Vagnoni** (Dr.) obtained his degree in Medieval History from the University of Siena (2004) and PhD from the University of Florence (2008). He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in several institutes and universities around the world and is now Senior Researcher in Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Assistant for the project "Royal Epiphanies. The King's Body as Image and Its Mise-en-scene in the Medieval Mediterranean (12th–14th centuries)" funded by ` the Swiss National Science Foundation. His main topic of research is royal iconography and sacrality in the kingdom of Sicily during the Norman–Swabian and Angevin–Aragonese period (12th–14th centuries). On this topic, he has given numerous presentations at conferences and published several papers and books.
