Adam S Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam S Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5264-1315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1908 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century
In medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116). These Hebrew books signal how bestiary knowledge and its visual expression could be adapted to enrich th…
Imitator of the Old Law/Advocate of Revealed Grace: Visualizing Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Regensburg
The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East by Elizabeth Morrison and Zrinka Stahuljak
Review Article| January 01 2020 The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East by Elizabeth Morrison and Zrinka Stahuljak Morrison, Elizabeth; Stahuljak, Zrinka, The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015), 154 pp. Adam S. Cohen Adam S. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1):…
Explaining agency detection within a domain-specific, culturally attuned model
Agents, or objects that appear to act with intentions, are readily perceived (Heider & Simmel, 1944), even when no agent is actually there, and may be characterized as “supernatural” (Barrett, 2000
Two Classrooms in China
This article describes two different sessions taught at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts by Linda Safran and Adam S. Cohen as part of a three-year J. Paul Getty Foundation “Connecting Art Histories” initiative titled “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History.” While the essay engages with the particular challenges and satisfactions of teaching about medieval Sicily under Muslim rule (focusing on a tenth-century text ab…
The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92 / Painting the "Hortus Deliciarum": Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time
Book Review| September 01 2017 The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92 / Painting the “Hortus Deliciarum”: Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time Derolez, Albert, The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), 355 pp.Joyner, Danielle, Painting the “Hortus Deliciarum”: Medieval Women, Wi…
King Edgar Leaping And Dancing Before The Lord
The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
Book Review| September 01 2016 The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim Stern, David, Markschies, Christoph, and Shalev-Eyni, Sarit, eds., The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015), 296 pp. Ada…
Introduction: Surveying the Borders of Medieval Art
The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church (review)
The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church . By Dunbar H. Ogden. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2002; pp. 251. $39.50 cloth
Warmond d'Ivrée et ses images: Politique et création iconographique autour de l'an mil . Pierre Alain Mariaux
Roland Trimen and the Merope harem
Roland Trimen (1840–1916, F.R.S. 1883) began to publish his entomological research in 1863. Although his main interest was in the taxonomy of South African butterflies he made important discoveries that helped to lay the foundations of the study of mimicry in insects. Together with Charles Darwin, Henry W. Bates, Alfred R. Wallace, Fritz Müller and Raphael Meldola he was one of those natural historians who may be credited with creating the scienc…
The Art of Reform in a Bavarian Nunnery Around 1000
Arabisms in Rabbinic Literature
Hebrew Incunabula in Cambridge
Hebrew Incunabula in Cambridge
Arabisms in Rabbinic Literature
The Art of Reform in a Bavarian Nunnery Around 1000
Roland Trimen and the Merope harem
Roland Trimen (1840–1916, F.R.S. 1883) began to publish his entomological research in 1863. Although his main interest was in the taxonomy of South African butterflies he made important discoveries that helped to lay the foundations of the study of mimicry in insects. Together with Charles Darwin, Henry W. Bates, Alfred R. Wallace, Fritz Müller and Raphael Meldola he was one of those natural historians who may be credited with creating the scienc…
The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church (review)
The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church . By Dunbar H. Ogden. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2002; pp. 251. $39.50 cloth
Warmond d'Ivrée et ses images: Politique et création iconographique autour de l'an mil . Pierre Alain Mariaux
Introduction: Surveying the Borders of Medieval Art
King Edgar Leaping And Dancing Before The Lord
The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
Book Review| September 01 2016 The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim Stern, David, Markschies, Christoph, and Shalev-Eyni, Sarit, eds., The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015), 296 pp. Ada…
The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92 / Painting the "Hortus Deliciarum": Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time
Book Review| September 01 2017 The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92 / Painting the “Hortus Deliciarum”: Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time Derolez, Albert, The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus: A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), 355 pp.Joyner, Danielle, Painting the “Hortus Deliciarum”: Medieval Women, Wi…
Two Classrooms in China
This article describes two different sessions taught at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts by Linda Safran and Adam S. Cohen as part of a three-year J. Paul Getty Foundation “Connecting Art Histories” initiative titled “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History.” While the essay engages with the particular challenges and satisfactions of teaching about medieval Sicily under Muslim rule (focusing on a tenth-century text ab…
Explaining agency detection within a domain-specific, culturally attuned model
Agents, or objects that appear to act with intentions, are readily perceived (Heider & Simmel, 1944), even when no agent is actually there, and may be characterized as “supernatural” (Barrett, 2000
The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East by Elizabeth Morrison and Zrinka Stahuljak
Review Article| January 01 2020 The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East by Elizabeth Morrison and Zrinka Stahuljak Morrison, Elizabeth; Stahuljak, Zrinka, The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015), 154 pp. Adam S. Cohen Adam S. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1):…
Imitator of the Old Law/Advocate of Revealed Grace: Visualizing Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Regensburg
Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century
In medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116). These Hebrew books signal how bestiary knowledge and its visual expression could be adapted to enrich th…
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