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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”477″ style=”vc_box_circle”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Post Doctoral Research Fellow
\nDepartment of History, University of Reading[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-envelope” color=”black” size=”xs” link=”url:mailto%3Ar.j.salter%40reading.ac.uk|title:Ruth%20Salter|target:_blank”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Project role<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My work as a post-doctoral researcher focuses on analysing documentary evidence for material practice. Looking at the written primary sources alongside the material objects will allow for a broader picture of ritual practice to emerge and has the potential to shed light on the use of material objects that may not have survived.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I am a Lecturer in Medieval Studies within the Department of History at the University of Reading. I am also a member of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Health Humanities.<\/p>\n

In addition to working on \u2018MeRit\u2019 and teaching for History, I am the School Director for Recruitment and Admissions (Humanities) and Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (History). I am also co-editor of the journal Reading Medieval Studies.<\/p>\n

Education and training<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Doctor of Philosophy History, University of Reading, 2016
\nMRes Medieval Studies, University of Reading, 2011
\nBA (Hons) Classical and Medieval Studies, University of Reading, 2010<\/p>\n

Areas of interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Medieval saints\u2019 cults and posthumous miracles.<\/li>\n
  • Lived religious practice and experience in the Middle Ages.<\/li>\n
  • Medieval medicine and broader practices of healthcare.<\/li>\n
  • The lives of women and children in the Middle Ages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Selected publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Salter, R. J. (2022) Beyond the Miracula: Practices and Experiences of Lay Devotion at the Cult of St \u00c6bbe, Coldingham\u2019. In Christiania Whitehead, Hazel J. Hunter Blair, and Denis Renevey (eds.) Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England: New Directions: 263-84. Medieval Church Studies 48. Turnhout: Brepols.<\/p>\n

    Salter, R. J. (2022) Visiting Reading Abbey: Cure-Seeking Pilgrims and the Cult of St James. Reading Medieval Studies 48: 263-83.<\/p>\n

    Salter, R. J. (2021) Minors and the Miraculous: The Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography. In L. Preston-Matto and M. Valante (eds.) Kids those Days: Childhood in Medieval Culture, 59-86. Explorations in Medieval Culture 13. Leiden: Brill.<\/p>\n

    Salter, R. J. (2021) Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England. Health and Healing in the Middle Ages 1. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press.<\/p>\n

    Salter, R. J. (2020) Memory, Myth, and Creating the Cult of St \u00c6bbe of Coldingham. Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 9: 31-50.<\/p>\n

    Salter, R. J. (2015) Only Half Healed: The Unusual Accounts of the Deaf and Mute in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography. The Reading Medievalist: A Postgraduate Journal 2: 85-108.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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