David Salter
Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3055
- Email: David.Salter@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.02
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour: Tuesday 12.00-1.00 and Wednesday 12.30-1.30
Background
Dr David Salter's principal research interests lie in the culture of the later Middle Ages, focusing in particular on romance and the literature of traditional religion. He is the author of Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animal in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), a study of the representation of animals in romance and saints’ lives.
He is currently completing a cultural history of the Franciscan Order in England, entitled St Francis and Cultural Memory: Catholicism and the English National Imagination, which is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
David has also written about Chaucer; Shakespeare’s religious background; art history; film and cultural studies. He welcomes research proposals in late medieval and Renaissance literature.
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'Staunch little democrat that he was': Humanitarian sentiment, social reform, and political idealism in Eleanor Atkinson's Greyfriars Bobby
(22 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Animals in Late-Medieval hagiography and romance
(15 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595278.005
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Kimberly Johnson, Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post Reformation England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
(3 pages)
In:
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, vol. 89, pp. 152-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767815627766g
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
A tour of bones: Facing fear and looking for life, by Denise Inge
In:
Times Higher Education
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Michael Murrin, Trade and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
In:
Modern Language Review, vol. 110, pp. 781-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
National and cosmopolitan identities in fifteenth-century England: William Caxton and Margery Kempe
In:
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
John Scattergood, John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet (Four Courts Press, 2014)
In:
Times Higher Education, vol. 2173
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, and Peter Holland, eds. Medieval Shakespeare: Past and Presents (Cambridge University Presss, 2013)
In:
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, vol. 85
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
'He is ane Haly Freir': The Freiris of Berwik, The Summoner’s Tale, and The Tradition of Anti-Fraternal Satire
In:
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 5, pp. 23-40
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A Journey into Political Consciousness: Africa as ‘Setting and Backdrop’ in Shekhar Kapur’s The Four Feathers (2002)
In:
Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. n/a, pp. n/a
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)