Dr Elisabeth Salter

Lecturer
BA (Kent), PhD (Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies, Kent) Photograph of Dr Elisabeth Salter.

Contact

Email: els@aber.ac.uk
Office: D55
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622193

Teaching Areas

I teach Medieval and Renaissance literatures  This includes second year and specialist third year option modules concerned with various popular literatures such as: Arthurian Literature; and a core module Medieval and Renaissance Writing. I also teach the first year core modules covering medieval to modern literatures, and offer a co-taught MA module Medieval and Renaissance Lives.   I currently supervise research students working on textual practice and identity c. 1400-1650 (and beyond), including students funded by KESS, private charitable funding, and the AHRC. Please contact me if you would like to discuss ideas for a PhD or MPhil and the possibilities for funding it.

Research

My research interests and publications are concerned with the uses of text in medieval and early modern England (and Wales).   I have a particular focus on the creative performance of reading and writing, for entertainment, devotion, practical necessity, and commemoration. These issues are explored in my first monograph (which investigated the uses of The Last will and Testament amongst other kinds of textual and material evidence) and in various essays.  My third monograph is concerned with popular reading across the transition from manuscript to print. I am currently developing that work on popular reading in a study of the uses and circulation of catechetical texts, c. 1200-1700.

I am involved in various collaborative ventures including 'The Mostyn Project' which I founded and which currently funds four PhD students. This is concerned with a major landholding family in Wales and the cultural dynamics of the construction of a dynasty. The Mostyn Project is currently developing studies of Llandudno and of The Mostyn Libraries. I am presently working on a major collaborative investigation of the collection of digitised last will and testament documents housed in The National Library of Wales.   As a member of the Consultative Committee for Arts and Humanities for the Research Information Network, I was the project manager for the ‘Researcher Use and Practice Survey’ which was funded by the Research Information Network.  I am a member of AMARC.

Staff Publications

Author of:

Popular reading in English Popular Reading in English c 1400-1600 (Manchester University Press, 2012)

 

Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance: Popular Culture in Town and Country (Palgrave, 2006).  Reviewed in TLS April 27 2007 http://thetls.co.uk; Medium Aevum, 76/2 (2008)Cultural Creativity

6 Renaissance Men & Women Six Renaissance Men and Women: Innovation, Biography and Cultural Creativity in Tudor England (Ashgate, 2007)

 

Co–editor of :

With Robert G A Lutton, Pieties in Transition: Religious Practices and Experiences, c. 1400-1640 (Ashgate, 2007) Reviewed in JEH 59 (2008), EHR 513 (2010)

With H E Wicker, Vernacularity in England and in Wales c. 1350-1550, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (Brepols, 2011)

Chapters in:

Managing Power, Wealth and the Body: the Christian Household in Medieval Europe, c. 850–1550, eds., S. Rees Jones et al (Brepols, 2003)

Clothing Culture 1300–1600, ed., C.T. Richardson (Ashgate, 2004)

Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England, ed, A Hadfield and M Dimmick (Ashgate, 2010)