**Mirko Vagnoni**

Mirko Vagnoni (P.D. Dr.) is Adjunct Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Sassari (AY 2021/2022). He studied at the Universities of Siena (2004) and Florence (2008), has been researcher at Universities and Institutes of research in several countries, and, recently, he obtained the Italian National Qualification as Associate Professor in Art History (2020). His research mainly focuses on the staging of power in the Kingdom of Sicily between the 12th and 14th centuries, with a particular attention toward royal iconography and sacrality and the relationship between politics and religion.
