Dr Julian Luxford,
FSA, FSA Scot, FRHistS
Position: Senior Lecturer
Telephone: 01334 462394
Email: jml5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Julian has been at St Andrews since January 2004. He has a BA(Hons) from LaTrobe University in Melbourne (1997) and a PhD from Cambridge University (2003), where he was also a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College.
His academic research is primarily concerned with architecture, art and ideas in England during the later Middle Ages. He has a particular interest in the monastic orders. The intellectual and social aspects of medieval objects - their symbolism, functions and contexts - lie at the heart of his work. He also has a developed interest in medieval French, German and Netherlandish architecture and art, and in Netherlandish painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Rubens holds a special fascination for him.
Julian encourages students interested in these areas to discuss their interests and research proposals with him.
Recent Publications
The Medieval Chantry in England, ed. J. M. Luxford and J. McNeill (Maney Publishing: Leeds, 2012) (in press)
Tributes to Nigel Morgan. Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects & Ideas, ed. J. M. Luxford and M. A. Michael (Harvey Miller: London, 2010)
Studies in Carthusian Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages, ed. J. M. Luxford (Brepols: Turnhout, 2008)
The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540: A Patronage History (The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2005: short-listed for and Highly Commended in the Longmans - History Today Book of the Year 2007.)
‘The Great Gate of St Augustine’s Abbey: Architecture and Context’, in A. Bovey ed., Canterbury, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 25 (Leeds, 2012) (6200 words: in press)
‘King Arthur’s Tomb at Glastonbury: the Relocation of 1368 in Context’, Arthurian Literature, 29 (2012) (5500 words: in press)
‘Nichil ornatus in domo domini pretermittens: The Professional Patronage of Walter of Monington, Abbot of Glastonbury’, in P. Binski and E. A. New (eds), Patrons and Professionals, Harlaxton Medieval Studies 22 (Donington, 2012), 237-60 and pls 49-55 (in press)
‘Manuscripts and Monastic Culture at Tynemouth Priory’, in J. Ashbee and J. M. Luxford (eds), Newcastle and Northumberland: Roman and Medieval Art and Architecture, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 27 (Leeds, 2012) (9500 words: in press)
‘The Hastings Brass at Elsing: a Contextual Analysis’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, XVII, pt. 3 (2011) (10,000 words: in press)
‘The Idol of Origins: Retrospection in Augustinian Art during the Later Middle Ages’, in J. Burton and K. Stöber eds, The Regular Canons in the Medieval British Isles, Medieval Church Studies 19 (Turnhout, 2011), 411-34 (in press)
‘The Origins and Development of the English ‘Stone-Cage’ Chantry Chapel’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 164 (2011), 39-73
‘The Late Medieval Abbey: Patronage, Buildings and Images’, in The Medieval Art, Architecture and History of Bristol Cathedral: an Enigma Explored, ed. J. Cannon and B. Williamson (Woodbridge, 2011), 216-46
‘The Space of the Tomb in Carthusian Consciousness’, in Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages, ed. F. Andrews, Harlaxton Medieval Studies 21 (Donington, 2011), 259-81 and pls 65-76
‘The Charterhouse of St Anne, Coventry’, in Coventry: Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity, ed. R. K. Morris and L. Monckton, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 23 (Leeds, 2011), 240-66
‘Out of the Wilderness: a Fourteenth-Century English Drawing of John the Baptist’, Gesta, 49 (2010), 137-50
‘The Monumental Epitaph of Edmund ‘Crouchback’, in Tributes to Nigel Morgan. Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects & Ideas, ed. J. M. Luxford and M. A. Michael (London, 2010), 211-21
‘The Sparham Corpse Panels: Unique Revelations of Death from Fifteenth-Century England’, Antiquaries Journal, 90 (2010), 299-340
‘A Fifteenth-Century Version of Matthew Paris’s Procession with Relic of the Holy Blood, and Evidence for its Carthusian Context’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 72 (2009), 81-101
‘English Medieval Tombs as Forensic Evidence’, Church Monuments, 24 (2009), 7-25
‘Art for Art’s Sake – Was It Ever Thus? A Historical Perspective’, in Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox, ed. N. Beech and B. Townley (Cambridge, 2010), 87-105
‘The Symbolism of East Anglian Flushwork’, in Signs and Symbols, ed. J. Cherry and A. Payne, Harlaxton Medieval Studies 18 (Donington, 2009), 119-32 and pls 1-10
‘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), 275-305
‘A Fifteenth-century English Chronicle Source for Robin Hood’, Journal of Medieval History, 35 (2009), 70–76
Recent Activities
Director of Research 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 at the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin
Selection of Books
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Tributes to Nigel Morgan, ed. J. M. Luxford and M. A. Michael (London, 2010) |  |
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 |
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The Medieval Chantry in England, ed. J. M. Luxford and J. McNeill (Leeds, 2012) |
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