Dr Julian Luxford,
FSA, F.R.Hist.S.
Position: Senior Lecturer
Telephone: 01334 462394
Email: jml5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching Areas
Netherlandish art of the 15th-17th centuries; European medieval art and architecture; the historiography of Art History
Research Areas
Medieval Northern art and architecture; medieval manuscript studies; monastic patronage and reception of art, architecture and texts; Carthusian history.
Publications
Studies in Carthusian Monasticism during the Late Middle Ages, ed. J. M. Luxford (Turnhout, Brepols: 2008): ISBN: 9782503516998 (editor + author of introduction and chapter on manuscript decoration)
The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540: A Patronage History (Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer: 2005): ISBN: 9781843831532 (Short-listed for, and Highly Commended in, the Longmans-History Today Book of the Year award, 2007)
‘Texts and Images of Carthusian Foundation’, in Self-Representation of Medieval Religious Communities: the British Isles in Context, ed. A. Müller and K. Stöber, Vita Regularis 20 (Münster, Hamburg and London, 2009), pp. 275-305
‘A Fifteenth-century English Chronicle Source for Robin Hood’, Journal of Medieval History (2009), pp. 70–76
‘The Patronage of the Church and its Purposes’, in T. Ayers and D. Bindman, eds, The History of British Art I: Saxon, Medieval and Renaissance, London, 2008, pp. 80-105, 262-3
‘The Monument of Sir Humfrey de Littlebury at All Saints, Holbeach’, in J. McNeill, ed. King’s Lynn and the Fens, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions for 2005, Leeds, 2008, pp. 148-69
‘‘Secundum originale examinatum’: The Refashioning of a Benedictine Historical Manuscript’, in M. Connolly and L. Mooney, eds, Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 161-79
‘Two English Carthusian Manuscripts of Ranulf Higden’s Polychronicon’, in Liber Amicorum James Hogg: Kartäuserforschung 1970-2006, ed. M. Niederkorn-Bruck, Analecta Cartusiana 210:3 (Salzburg, 2008), pp. 165-80
‘Tres sunt Ricardi and the Crowland chronicle’, The Ricardian, XVIII (2008), pp. 21-30
‘The Collegiate Church as Mausoleum’ in M. Heale and C. Burgess eds, The Late Medieval English College and its Context, Woodbridge, 2008, pp. 110-39
‘Benedettini e arti figurative in Inghilterra alla fine del medioevo. La prospettiva monastica’, in Benedetto: l’eredità artistica, ed. R. Cassanelli and G. López-Tello García (Milan, 2007), 265-78
Forthcoming Publications
Tributes to Nigel Morgan, ed., with M. A. Michael (London and New York, 2009)
‘The Monumental Epitaph of Edmund ‘Crouchback’’, in Tributes to Nigel Morgan, ed. J. M. Luxford and M. A. Michael (London and New York, 2009)
‘The Art of Matthew Paris in the Fifteenth Century: A Carthusian Copy of Procession with Relic of the Holy Blood’ (Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes)
‘English Medieval Tombs as Forensic Evidence’, Church Monuments, 24 (2009)
J. M. Luxford, ‘Art for Art’s Sake – Was It Ever Thus? A Historical Perspective’, in The Discipline of Creativity: Exploring the Paradox, ed. N. Beech and B. Townley (Cambridge, CUP: 2009)
Recent Activities
Director of Teaching for the School of Art History, University of St Andrews
Project team member on the AHRC-funded Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Chruches:
http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cmas/
Editor of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association: see
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/baa/contact.html
To access journal content online visit http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/jba/
Series editor (with Asa Simon Mittman) of Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture for the Boydell Press
External examiner for the MA programme, and medieval BA courses, at the Courtauld Institute of Art
Steering Committee member (Art History) of the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/index.htm
‘The origins and development of the cage chantry chapel’ (paper delivered at the conference ‘The medieval chantry in England and Wales’, Rewley House, Oxford, 4 April 2009)
‘The aesthetics of error in Harley MS 612’ (paper given at the conference ‘‘Divers Manuscripts both Antient & Curious’: Treasures from the Harley Collection’, The British Library, London, 29-30 June 2009)
‘Patronage and propriety at St Augustine’s abbey in the later middle ages: the great gate and its context’ (paper given at the British Archaeological Association’s 35th annual conference, Canterbury, 18-22 July 2009)
‘The space of the tomb in Carthusian consciousness’ (paper given at ‘Ritual and Space’, the 26th annual Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, 20-23 July 2009)
Selection of Books
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The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300 - 1540 A Patronage History |
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Studies in Carthusian Monasticism during the Late Middle Ages, ed. J. M. Luxford |
Notice for research students:
Dr Luxford encourages students interested in working on any topic relating to his research to discuss their proposals with him