Staff profile

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.

Authored book

• The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste's De colore Edition, Translation and Interdisciplinary analysis
  
  Dinkova-Bruun, G., Gasper, G. E., Huxtable, M., McLeish, T. C., Panti, C., & Smithson, H. (2013). The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s De colore Edition, Translation and Interdisciplinary analysis. PIMS.

Chapter in book

• Medieval Colour
  
  Huxtable, M., & O’Donnell, R. (2018). Medieval Colour. In C. Gerrard & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (pp. 742-758). Oxford University Press.
• The Relationship of Light and Colour in Medieval Thought and Imagination
  
  Huxtable, M. J. (2014). The Relationship of Light and Colour in Medieval Thought and Imagination. In K. Clarke & S. Baccianti (Eds.), On Light (pp. 25-44). The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.
• Aspects of Armorial Colours and their Perception in Medieval Literature
  
  Huxtable, M. J. (2011). Aspects of Armorial Colours and their Perception in Medieval Literature. In C. P. Biggam, C. A. Hough, C. J. Kay, & D. R. Simmons (Eds.), New Directions in Colour Studies (pp. 191-203). John Benjamins Publishing.
• The Medieval Gaze at Grips with a Medieval World
  
  Huxtable, M. (2006). The Medieval Gaze at Grips with a Medieval World. In C. P. Biggam & C. Kay (Eds.), Progress in Colour Studies Volume I. Language and culture. John Benjamins Publishing.