Aden Kumler
Contact Information
773.702.0266
akumler@uchicago.edu
Cochrane-Woods 266
Ph.D. Harvard University – Western medieval art and architecture. Research interests include visual forms of theological discourse; translation and its theorizations; the illumination of didactic literature; late medieval antiquarianism; allegory and allegoresis in the visual arts; and the semiotics of the Eucharist.
Books:
Ambitious Images: Truth, Translation, and the Pursuit of Salvation in Late Medieval France and England, New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming.
The Multiplication of the Species: Eucharistic Morphology in the Middle Ages, book manuscript in progress.
Articles:
“The Multiplication of the Species: Eucharistic Morphology in the Middle Ages," RES, (Spring 2011)
“Translating the Reader-Viewer: Visual appropriation and the promises of devotional literature in Paris, BnF, MS n. a. fr. 4338,” in Translating the Middle Ages, Karen Fresco & Charles Wright, eds., forthcoming.
“Faire translater, faire historier: Charles V’s Bible historiale (Houghton Library, fMS Typ. 555)and the Visual Rhetoric of Vernacular Sapience,” Studies in Iconography, 29 (2008).
Encyclopedia and Catalog Entries:
“Color Symbolism,” The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming.
Catalog entry for Paris, BnF, MS fr. 13342 in Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, Melanie Holcomb, ed., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2009.
Catalog entry for London, British Library, Add. MS 39843 (La Sainte Abbaye) in Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, München: Hirmer, 2005.
Book reviews:
Review of Dorothy M. Shephard, Introducing the Lambeth Bible: A Study of Texts and Imagery (Brepols, 2007) for the Journal of English and Germanic Philology (January 2010).
Review of Harvey Stahl, Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis (Penn State University Press, 2007) for The Art Bulletin (March 2009).