Julian Luxford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Luxford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Luxford |
| SIGNATURE | LUXFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4970-7117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
St Bartholomew’s Priory, West Smithfield
A case exists for revising the dates normally assigned to two late medieval objects which commemorate the origins of St Bartholomew’s priory in West Smithfield (founded 1123). It is possible to show that the effigy of Rahere in the priory church is an addition, rather than original, to the founder’s tomb on the north side of the choir, and also that the manuscript containing the so-called Book of the Foundation was made considerably later than is…
Professor Richard Fawcett, OBE, FRSE, FSA, FSA Scot. (31 December 1946–31 October 2023)
Photo: Julian Luxford Richard was born at Hoyland, South Yorkshire, on the last day of 1946. A keen pupil at school, he was an equally enthusiastic student of local churches, to which, once old eno
A Box of Alabaster
Journal Article A Box of Alabaster Get access Jessica Brantley, Stephen Perkinson and Elizabeth C Teviotdale (eds), Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England (Berlin and Boston, MA: De Gruyter, 2020), 109 colour and b&w illns, xi + 296 pp., ISBN 978-1-5015-1812-6, hardback £102.50 Julian Luxford Julian Luxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2023, Pag…
A projected pilgrimage from Suffolk to St Ninian, c. 1500
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Two Fragments of a Painted Screen from Hamstall Ridware, Staffordshire, with Passion Imagery Including the Seven Effusions of Christ’s Blood
Two fragments of a screen painted c. 1500 in the parish church of St Michael and All Angels at Hamstall Ridware in Staffordshire are analysed with reference to their imagery, handling and original setting. Although now mounted on a modern reredos, the panels were made for use in the church, and probably formed part of the rood screen. Unusually, they were painted on the interior, east-facing sides of the screen they occupied: this can be establis…
Emily M. Rose, The Murder of Guillaume of Norwich
À ce jour, le livre d’Emily Rose est l’étude la plus détaillée sur Guillaume de Norwich (mort en 1144) et les implications de son meurtre. Le meurtre de Guillaume n’est pas le sujet principal de l’a. Son plus large objectif est de contribuer aux connaissances sur le mythe de la diffamation de sang qu’elle admet être un phénomène contesté et déplaisant, mais qui mérite quelque attention en raison de sa puissance historique. Sa contribution fondame…
The Relics of Thomas Becket in England
While Becket’s relics are likely to have been owned by institutions and individuals throughout much of later medieval England, the reliable surviving evidence for them is limited. Without pretending to anything like completeness, the present essay assesses a range of sources in order to determine (or at least suggest) their usefulness for constructing a historically rooted understanding of the definition, distribution, appearance, and housing of …
Recording and curating relics at Westminster Abbey in the late Middle Ages
Westminster Abbey’s relics, and objects functionally related to them, were kept in the shrine chapel of St Edward the Confessor, where the kings and queens of England were customarily buried. They constituted a discrete collection, curated by a dedicated monastic officer titled ‘the keeper of St Edward’s shrine and the relics of St Peter’s church’. Inventories of the chapel, made when the office changed hands, survive from 1467, 1479 and 1520. Th…
Seals and Status
The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe
Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages. The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled during the Reformation. While these screens divided "lay" from "priestly" jurisdiction, it has also been argued that they served to unify architectural s…
The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia, by Rebecca Pinner
This is a well-organised, well-written study of an important and distinctive English saint cult. (The Edmund in question is the ninth-century king of East Anglia, not the thirteenth-century archbishop of Canterbury.) As a compilation and analysis of the main textual evidence and much surviving iconography, it makes a useful addition to a growing series of scholarly monographs on the English cults of major saints such as Anne, Catherine of Alexand…
Glastonbury Abbey
Catfield Church, Norfolk
Evidence is produced here for the appearance and location of the sepulchral monument of John Walters, rector of Catfield in Norfolk from 1460 until 1478. Walters’s monument is interesting both for its own sake and because it incorporated a brass inscription which recorded his responsibility for reconstruction of the chancel of Catfield church in 1471. Another point of interest is the deliberate preservation of this brass in the early 17th century…
John of Oxnead, chronicler of St. Benet's Holm
Authorship of the late thirteenth-century chronicle of the abbey of St. Benet's Holm in Norfolk was given to John of Oxnead by its editor. However, some scholars have questioned the attribution, because its only basis is a seventeenth-century inscription in a surviving copy of the text. This short article produces a reference to a John of Oxnead in an account roll from the abbey written the year after the latest entry in the chronicle. It is very…
Luxury and locality in a late medieval book of hours from south-west England
This paper describes and analyses a previously unrecorded Sarum book of hours of considerable artistic and textual interest. Seven of its pages have bar-frame borders illuminated in a distinctive and remarkable style. Four of these pages also have initials with figure-subjects, some of which are contextually unusual or unique. There is also an initial with a coat of arms displaying a black engrailed cross on a gold field (the arms of Mohun of Dun…
The Origins and Development of the English 'Stone-Cage' Chantry Chapel
Although 'stone-cage' chapels are widely admired, and briefly discussed in numerous publications, little detailed attention has been paid to them as a group. Their aesthetic richness, conceptual interest, and uniquely English provenance all invite examination of their origins and development, but — in striking contrast to three-dimensional tombs — these problems have been largely neglected. The following essay aims to supply this want. After a pr…
Scottish Medieval Parish Churches
The great majority of Scottish parish churches owe their present appearance to reconstructions carried out from the later eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was the view of the authors of this paper, however, that in many cases those reconstructions had been relatively superficial, and that medieval work might have survived under what could, in some cases, be little more than a modern veneer. To test this view, a survey was carried out of all…
The Sparham Corpse Panels
Two late fifteenth-century rood-screen panels in Sparham church, near Norwich, display images of corpses that are apparently unique in surviving medieval art. One is painted with two standing corpses dressed in finery, the other with a corpse arising from a tomb within a church, with a font to one side. Both panels are notable for their surviving inscriptions, and others now lost. Together, these works constitute one of the most significant Engli…
Studies in Carthusian Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages
Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age
Rubens and Brueghel
Book Reviews / Religion and the Arts 13 (2009) 604–617 615 Woollett, Anne T., and Ariane van Suchtelen. Contributions Tiatna Doherty et al. Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship . Los Angeles CA and Zwolle and Th e Hague, Netherlands: Getty Museum Publications in association with Waanders Publishers and the Royal Picture Gallery Mau- ritshuis, 2006. Pp. xiv + 274 + 190 illustrations. $65.00 cloth, $40.00 paper. R ubens’s stakes have risen dra…
An English chronicle entry on Robin Hood
This short article introduces a previously unknown pre-Reformation chronicle entry about Robin Hood. Until now, no English chronicle entry has been discovered, and only Scottish authors are thought to have set Robin in a chronological context. The new find places Robin Hood in Edward I's reign, thus supporting the belief that his legend is of thirteenth-century origin. It contains a uniquely negative assessment of the outlaw, and provides rare ev…
The Late Medieval English College and its Context
A wide-ranging survey of the medieval secular college and its context.
Rembrandt Face to Face
Bruegel to Rubens
Recording and curating relics at Westminster Abbey in the late Middle Ages
Westminster Abbey’s relics, and objects functionally related to them, were kept in the shrine chapel of St Edward the Confessor, where the kings and queens of England were customarily buried. They constituted a discrete collection, curated by a dedicated monastic officer titled ‘the keeper of St Edward’s shrine and the relics of St Peter’s church’. Inventories of the chapel, made when the office changed hands, survive from 1467, 1479 and 1520. Th…
The Sparham Corpse Panels
Two late fifteenth-century rood-screen panels in Sparham church, near Norwich, display images of corpses that are apparently unique in surviving medieval art. One is painted with two standing corpses dressed in finery, the other with a corpse arising from a tomb within a church, with a font to one side. Both panels are notable for their surviving inscriptions, and others now lost. Together, these works constitute one of the most significant Engli…
An English chronicle entry on Robin Hood
This short article introduces a previously unknown pre-Reformation chronicle entry about Robin Hood. Until now, no English chronicle entry has been discovered, and only Scottish authors are thought to have set Robin in a chronological context. The new find places Robin Hood in Edward I's reign, thus supporting the belief that his legend is of thirteenth-century origin. It contains a uniquely negative assessment of the outlaw, and provides rare ev…
In Dreams
Auro et Argento Pulcherrime Fabricatum
Five illustrations of the feretory of St Dunstan at Glastonbury appear in the margins of Cambridge, Trinity College MS R 5 16, a copy of John of Glastonbury's chronicle of the abbey. They provide a unique visual record of a major monument of English Gothic metalwork previously known only through documentation. The feretory of St Dunstan stood at the centre of one of Glastonbury's most important cults. Its form was more wholeheartedly architectura…
More on the Sculpture of the West Front of Bath Abbey
The iconography of the early sixteenth century sculptural program of Bath Abbey's west front has been shown in a previous article (Religion and the Arts, 4.3 (2000), 313-36) to represent an allegory of spiritual ascent through the virtue of humility and descent through the vice of pride, as explained in chapter seven of the Rule of St Benedict. The current article focuses upon two sculptures largely overlooked by the earlier study, the iconograph…
The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall ‐ by Gregory Martin
The Late Medieval English College and its Context
A wide-ranging survey of the medieval secular college and its context.
Rembrandt Face to Face
Bruegel to Rubens
Studies in Carthusian Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages
Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age
Rubens and Brueghel
Book Reviews / Religion and the Arts 13 (2009) 604–617 615 Woollett, Anne T., and Ariane van Suchtelen. Contributions Tiatna Doherty et al. Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship . Los Angeles CA and Zwolle and Th e Hague, Netherlands: Getty Museum Publications in association with Waanders Publishers and the Royal Picture Gallery Mau- ritshuis, 2006. Pp. xiv + 274 + 190 illustrations. $65.00 cloth, $40.00 paper. R ubens’s stakes have risen dra…
An English chronicle entry on Robin Hood
This short article introduces a previously unknown pre-Reformation chronicle entry about Robin Hood. Until now, no English chronicle entry has been discovered, and only Scottish authors are thought to have set Robin in a chronological context. The new find places Robin Hood in Edward I's reign, thus supporting the belief that his legend is of thirteenth-century origin. It contains a uniquely negative assessment of the outlaw, and provides rare ev…
Scottish Medieval Parish Churches
The great majority of Scottish parish churches owe their present appearance to reconstructions carried out from the later eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was the view of the authors of this paper, however, that in many cases those reconstructions had been relatively superficial, and that medieval work might have survived under what could, in some cases, be little more than a modern veneer. To test this view, a survey was carried out of all…
The Sparham Corpse Panels
Two late fifteenth-century rood-screen panels in Sparham church, near Norwich, display images of corpses that are apparently unique in surviving medieval art. One is painted with two standing corpses dressed in finery, the other with a corpse arising from a tomb within a church, with a font to one side. Both panels are notable for their surviving inscriptions, and others now lost. Together, these works constitute one of the most significant Engli…
The Origins and Development of the English 'Stone-Cage' Chantry Chapel
Although 'stone-cage' chapels are widely admired, and briefly discussed in numerous publications, little detailed attention has been paid to them as a group. Their aesthetic richness, conceptual interest, and uniquely English provenance all invite examination of their origins and development, but — in striking contrast to three-dimensional tombs — these problems have been largely neglected. The following essay aims to supply this want. After a pr…
Luxury and locality in a late medieval book of hours from south-west England
This paper describes and analyses a previously unrecorded Sarum book of hours of considerable artistic and textual interest. Seven of its pages have bar-frame borders illuminated in a distinctive and remarkable style. Four of these pages also have initials with figure-subjects, some of which are contextually unusual or unique. There is also an initial with a coat of arms displaying a black engrailed cross on a gold field (the arms of Mohun of Dun…
Catfield Church, Norfolk
Evidence is produced here for the appearance and location of the sepulchral monument of John Walters, rector of Catfield in Norfolk from 1460 until 1478. Walters’s monument is interesting both for its own sake and because it incorporated a brass inscription which recorded his responsibility for reconstruction of the chancel of Catfield church in 1471. Another point of interest is the deliberate preservation of this brass in the early 17th century…
John of Oxnead, chronicler of St. Benet's Holm
Authorship of the late thirteenth-century chronicle of the abbey of St. Benet's Holm in Norfolk was given to John of Oxnead by its editor. However, some scholars have questioned the attribution, because its only basis is a seventeenth-century inscription in a surviving copy of the text. This short article produces a reference to a John of Oxnead in an account roll from the abbey written the year after the latest entry in the chronicle. It is very…
Glastonbury Abbey
The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe
Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages. The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled during the Reformation. While these screens divided "lay" from "priestly" jurisdiction, it has also been argued that they served to unify architectural s…
The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia, by Rebecca Pinner
This is a well-organised, well-written study of an important and distinctive English saint cult. (The Edmund in question is the ninth-century king of East Anglia, not the thirteenth-century archbishop of Canterbury.) As a compilation and analysis of the main textual evidence and much surviving iconography, it makes a useful addition to a growing series of scholarly monographs on the English cults of major saints such as Anne, Catherine of Alexand…
Seals and Status
Recording and curating relics at Westminster Abbey in the late Middle Ages
Westminster Abbey’s relics, and objects functionally related to them, were kept in the shrine chapel of St Edward the Confessor, where the kings and queens of England were customarily buried. They constituted a discrete collection, curated by a dedicated monastic officer titled ‘the keeper of St Edward’s shrine and the relics of St Peter’s church’. Inventories of the chapel, made when the office changed hands, survive from 1467, 1479 and 1520. Th…
Emily M. Rose, The Murder of Guillaume of Norwich
À ce jour, le livre d’Emily Rose est l’étude la plus détaillée sur Guillaume de Norwich (mort en 1144) et les implications de son meurtre. Le meurtre de Guillaume n’est pas le sujet principal de l’a. Son plus large objectif est de contribuer aux connaissances sur le mythe de la diffamation de sang qu’elle admet être un phénomène contesté et déplaisant, mais qui mérite quelque attention en raison de sa puissance historique. Sa contribution fondame…
The Relics of Thomas Becket in England
While Becket’s relics are likely to have been owned by institutions and individuals throughout much of later medieval England, the reliable surviving evidence for them is limited. Without pretending to anything like completeness, the present essay assesses a range of sources in order to determine (or at least suggest) their usefulness for constructing a historically rooted understanding of the definition, distribution, appearance, and housing of …
A projected pilgrimage from Suffolk to St Ninian, c. 1500
Peer reviewed
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