Laura Ashe FRHistS[1] is a British historian of English medieval literature, history and culture (c. 1000–1550).
[5] Prior to joining Worcester College in 2008, Ashe spent two years lecturing at Queen Mary University of London.
[7] Ashe's early research focused on the multilingual literary environment of England after the Norman Conquest.
[9] More recent projects include a biography of Richard II (2016), a study of English literary history between 1000 and 1350 (2017), and an examination of the work of Geoffrey Chaucer in relation to the themes of subjectivity, recognition and ethical agency (2025).
[11] Since 2013 she has appeared as an expert panelist on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time series on more than ten occasions, discussing subjects such as the twelfth century renaissance,[12] Beowulf,[13] chivalry,[14] Le Morte d'Arthur,[15] purgatory,[16] Thomas Becket,[17] Thomas Wyatt,[18] and Gawain and the Green Knight.