PhD Student

Letizia Curreri M.A.

Contact

work +49 6151 16-28573

Work S4|22 303
Dolivostr. 15
64293 Darmstadt

Research Interests

  • Social history
  • political history
  • settlement mapping
  • Medieval Sicily
  • Military Orders

PhD Project

The hospitallers in Sicily during the 15th Century: proprieties and water supply of the Priory of Messina (Working Title)


The project aims to identify the proprieties owned by the Hospitallers in Sicily and relate them to the territorial geography, to study their settlement about the territorial morphology and hydromorphology of Sicily.

since 2022 Ph.D. student at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt with the training group KRITIS and Institut fur Geschichte, supervisor Prof. Dr. Gerrit Jasper Schenk.
2022 Master of Arts Historical Sciences, University of Florence
2019 Bachelor of Arts History and Protection of Archaeological, Artistic, Archival, and Library Heritage, University of Florence

2021 – Talk I possedimenti Siciliani dell'Ospedale di San Giovanni (Der sizilianische Besitz des Krankenhauses von St. Johannes), Studienkonferenz Translatio Sanctitatis. Tra Terrasanta e Santiago: le pergamene ritrovate e il culto di San Giacomo a Capizzi (Capizzi, 27-28 luglio 2021) (Translatio Sanctitatis. Zwischen dem Heiligen Land und Santiago: die wiederentdeckten Pergamente und der Kult des Heiligen Jakobus in Capizzi – 27. und 28. Juli 2021, Capizzi).