Staff profile
Dr Michael Huxtable
Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature
Research postgraduate

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies | Room 284, Elvet Riverside | |
Tutor of St Chad's College | ||
Member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
Biography
Mike Huxtable studied Philosophy and English at the University of York and has obtained Masters degrees in both subjects. He completed a doctorate in 2008 in Durham on the phenomenology of colour and its perception in medieval literature. Mike's research interests include medieval philosophy, theology and the history of ideas; the semiology of medieval art and culture (in particular heraldry), and the influence of visuality on literary creativity.
Recent publications:
Huxtable, Michael J. ‘The Relationship of Light and Colour in Medieval Thought and Imagination’, in On Light, ed. K. P. Clarke and Sarah Baccianti, Medium Ævum Monographs (Oxford: S.S.M.L.L., 2014) 25-44.
The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste's De colore: Edition, Translation and Interdisciplinary Analysis, ed. and essays by Greti Dinkova-Braun, Giles E. M. Gasper, Michael J. Huxtable, Tom C. B. McLeish, Cecilia Panti, and Hannah Smithson, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies-Durham Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Texts (Toronto: PIMS, 2013).
Huxtable, Michael J., ‘Aspects of Armorial Colour and its Perception in Medieval Writing’, New Directions in Colour Studies, ed. Carole Biggam, Carole Hough, and Christine Kay (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011), 191-202.
Huxtable, Michael J., 'The Medieval Gaze at Grips with a Medieval World,' Progress in Colour Studies Vol.I., ed. C. P. Biggam and C. Kay (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006) 193-214.
Research Projects
Publications
Chapter in book
- Huxtable, Michael & O'Donnell, Ronan (2018). 'Medieval Colour'. In The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain. Gerrard, Christopher & Gutiérrez, Alejandra Oxford University Press. 742-758.
- Huxtable, Michael J. (2014). 'The Relationship of Light and Colour in Medieval Thought and Imagination'. In On Light. Clarke, K. P. & Baccianti, Sarah The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. 25-44.
- Huxtable, Michael J. (2011). 'Aspects of Armorial Colours and their Perception in Medieval Literature'. In New Directions in Colour Studies. Biggam, Carole P., Hough, Carole A., Kay, Christian J. & Simmons, David R. John Benjamins. 191-203.
- Huxtable, M. J. (2006). 'The Medieval Gaze at Grips with a Medieval World'. In Progress in Colour Studies Volume I. Language and culture. Biggam, Carole P. & Kay, Christian John Benjamins.