Research: Capetians and Plantagenets between the English Channel and the Seine around 1200. Architecture and technology at the service of war. The Louvre of Philip II Augustus and the Château-Gaillard of Richard the Lionheart: castles and urban walls to defend and contest a territory.
Massimo Gioia was born in Rome in 1996. After enrolling in the three-year degree course in Historical-Artistic Studies at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", he won in 2017 an Erasmus+ scholarship (11 months) at the University of Sevilla. After obtaining his three-year degree, he enrolled in the master's degree course in Art History at the same University, during which he won an Erasmus+ Traineeship scholarship (3 months) at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais in Lisbon and a Erasmus+ Thesis scholarship (4 months) at the Universidade Nova of the same city, for research and production of the final thesis entitled "The colonization of Clairvaux in Portuguese Extremadura: the foundation of Alcobaça and its cultural impact on first century of life" (Supervisor: Prof. Pio Pistilli; Co-supervisor: Prof. Roberta Cerone), with whom he graduated with honors in 2022.
In the same year he won a scholarship for specialization activities abroad at the Ècole Doctorale d'Histoire de l'Art of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and started the School of Specialization in Art History of the University of Bologna.
In 2023 he was admitted to the XXXIX cycle of Doctorate in History of Art with a research project entitled: "Capetians and Plantagenets between the English Channel and the Seine around 1200. Architecture and technology at the service of war. The Louvre of Philip II Augustus and Richard the Lionheart's Château-Gaillard: castles and urban walls to defend and contest a territory."