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

• 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

• Huxtable, M., & O'Donnell, R. (2018). Medieval Colour. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (742-758). Oxford University Press
• Huxtable, M. J. (2014). The Relationship of Light and Colour in Medieval Thought and Imagination. In K. Clarke, & S. Baccianti (Eds.), On Light (25-44). The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and 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 (191-203). John Benjamins Publishing
• 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