The Medieval Colloquium: Dr. Laura Ashe, “Twelfth-Century Transformations”

Laura Ashe is Associate Professor of English and a Tutorial Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Her main research interests lie in high medieval literary and cultural history. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, her books include Fiction and History in England, 1066–1200 (2007), Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer (2015), Richard II (2016), and (as co-editor) The Exploitations of Medieval Romance (2010) and War and Literature (2014). She is also one of the editors of New Medieval Literatures. Her current project is the new Oxford English Literary History, vol. 1: 1000–1350.