IMC 2026: Sessions

This session seeks to revisit legal sources as instruments for the study of art history in Late Medieval Mallorca in the context of the Mediterranean and, in particular, the Crown of Aragon. The relevance of medieval period in this territories is evidenced by its cultural and documentary heritage, although archives should be explored through new perspectives. Our proposal addresses legal and notarial documentation, which have been extensively employed, even though other categories of records in specific areas have received comparatively little scholarly attention. Using a historical-artistic methodology, the discussion will first turn to domestic inventories of assets, used here as a way of examining emotional practices within the spatial framework of medieval households. It will then approach books of court ceremonies, which provide a vantage point for analysing modes of representation and the articulation of spaces in royal residences of the Kingdom of Majorca and, more broadly, within the Crown of Aragon. Finally, by way of illustration of judicial sources, the session will consider a civil proceeding concerning the construction of the main parish church of the city of Mallorca (Santa Eulàlia).