Adam S. Cohen

Associate Professor
as.cohen@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Cross-Appointments

Department of Art History

Fields of Study

  • Britain & Ireland
  • Europe (Northern or Western)
  • Art
  • History
  • Religion

Areas of Interest

Uses of art, especially by male and female monastics, to articulate complex theological structures and the intersection of such ideological positions with the lived experience; Jewish art (broadly defined) and Jewish-Christian polemics in the Middle Ages

Biography

Courses

Publications

  • Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World, with Jill Caskey and Linda Safran (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming)
  • The Visualization of Knowledge in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, ed. with Marcia Kupfer, J.H. Chajes (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020)
  • Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggadah Masterpieces (Jerusalem: Toby Press, 2018)
  • Confronting the Borders of Medieval Art, co-edited with Jill Caskey and Linda Safran (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
  • Eye and Mind:  Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman (Kalamazoo, Mich.: The Medieval Institute, Richard Rawlinson Center, 2010)
  • The Uta Codex:  Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany (University Park, Pa.:  Penn State University Press, 2000)