Series of Conferences and Franklin Research Grant for Professor Bauer

Art History Assistant Professor Doron Bauer has been awarded the Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society for his project “Medieval Art in the Balearic Islands: Topologies and Modalities of Artistic interactions in the Mediterranean.”

Last month, Bauer co-presented with Elena Paulino Montero a paper titled “The Textual Construction of Domestic Spaces in Late Medieval and Early Modern Majorca,” in the conference At Close Quarters: Experiencing the Domestic c.1400-1600, University of York, March 3, 2017.

In June he will present various aspects of his research on the emergence of new modern conceptions of space in late medieval Majorca in the following venues:

• “Islamicate Goods in Gothic Halls: The Nachleben of Palma de Mallorca’s Islamic Past” (co-authored with Elena Paulino Montego), in Dialogues in Late Medieval Mediterranean: Cultural Legacy of Western Islamic Societies, Nova University of Lisbon, June 20, 2017.
• “The Macrocosmos within the Microcosmos: Domestic Spaces as Visions of the World in Late Medieval and Early Modern Majorca” (co-authored with Elena Paulino Montego), in Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, University of Oxford, June 23-24, 2017.

And in October 2017:

• “Economic Fluctuations and Artistic Production in The Kingdom of Majorca,” Art et économie en France et en Italie au XIVe siècle, Université de Lausanne, October 19-20, 2017.
• “The Aesthetic Colonization of Palma de Mallorca after the Christian Conquest,” Jahrestagung der Carl Justi-Vereinigung, The Artistic Heritage of al-Andalus and National Identity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 27-28, 2017.

First pages of the inventory of the belongings of the Jewish physician Lleo Jahuda Mosconi from 1375 (Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca, Prot. P-139, 57v-62r, Palma de Mallorca).