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.