The Palgrave Handbook of Medieval Literature and Science

Michael J. Huxtable  is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies at the Durham University, UK. He researches intersections and relationships between literature and natural philosophy in the medieval period. He is Co-Director of Durham's Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and a member of the Ordered Universe Research Group. He co-edited an edition of Robert Grosseteste’s De colore  ( The Dimensions of Colour , 2013) with Greti Dinkova-Braun, Giles Gasper, Tom McLeish and others.  He is author of Grosseteste and the Green Knight: Colour Theory and Chivalric Writing (forthcoming) and chapters and articles on medieval colour theory, chivalry, and romance. He is currently completing a second monograph provisionally entitled The Concept of Colour in Medieval Literature . 

Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK. She specialises in the history of ideas, romance and visionary writing. Her current research focuses on the connections between mind, body and emotions. She co-leads the Affective Experience Lab within Durham’s Wellcome-funded Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, and until 2025 was Co-Director of Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities. Her third monograph, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance , was published in 2010. Recent co-edited books include Women and Medieval Literary Culture (2023), Middle English Manuscripts and their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle (2022), The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture, and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021) and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020). She is Editor for English Literature of the journal Medium Ævum .