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Ruth Salter is a Lecturer in History at the University of Reading, serving as Admissions Tutor and School Director of Recruitment in Humanities. Her research focuses on high medieval healthcare, lived religion, and miraculous cures, primarily through analysis of posthumous miracle collections. She supervises PhD projects on topics like Cistercian monasteries and St Christopher’s cult. Salter teaches modules on medieval medicine, women’s history, and historiography at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Active in research, Salter leads the AHRC-funded MeRit project (Medieval Ritual Landscape) exploring medieval England’s material culture of religion (1100–1600), collaborating with the British Museum. She co-organizes the ‘Maladies, Miracles and Medicine’ conference series and contributes to the Centre for Health Humanities and Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies.
Her publications analyze medieval pilgrimage, childhood health, and saint cults, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to religious and medical practices. Salter’s work bridges textual and archaeological evidence, highlighting everyday religious practices and their societal impacts.
