Professor

Laura Ashe
Occupation(s)Professor of English Literature; David Woods Kemper Family Fellow in English, Worcester College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish studies, History
Sub-disciplineMedieval studies, Renaissance studies

Laura Ashe is a British historian of English medieval literature, history and culture (c.1000–1550). She lectures in English and is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.[1][2] She was educated at Leeds Girls' High School (independent).

In 2009 Ashe won a Philip Leverhulme Prize, for the international impact of her research. In 2015 she was the presenter for BBC Radio 3's A Cultural History of the Plague[3] and has taken part as an expert panelist for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on the topics of The 12th Century Renaissance,[4] Beowulf,[5] Chivalry[6] Le Morte d'Arthur,[7] Purgatory,[8] Thomas Becket and Gawain and the Green Knight. She contributed to Art that Made Us, an eight-part BBC Two TV series in 2022 presenting an alternate history of Britain through art and literature.[9]

Selected publications

  • Ashe, Laura (2016), Richard II: a brittle glory, Penguin Monarchs, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0141979892
  • Ashe, Laura (2015), Early Fiction in England: from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer, Penguin Classics, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0141392875
  • Ashe, Laura; Patterson, Ian (2014), War and Literature, Essays and Studies, v. 67, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, ISBN 978-1843843818
  • Ashe, Laura (2011), Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 68, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521174367
  • Ashe, Laura; Djordjević, Ivana; Weiss, Judith (2010), The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, Studies in Medieval Romance, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1846157882

References

  1. "Laura Ashe". Georgina Capel Associates. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  2. "Dr Laura Ashe". Oxford University. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  3. "Sunday Feature, A Cultural History of the Plague". BBC Radio 3. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  4. "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The 12th Century Renaissance". BBC. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  5. "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Beowulf". BBC. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  6. "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Chivalry". BBC. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  7. "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Le Morte d'Arthur". BBC. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  8. "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Purgatory". BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  9. "Art That Made Us A history of British creativity". connect.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2022.


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