Books written by Laura Ashe

  • The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 1: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
    The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 1: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation

    ... luue wes þah biturnd upon hire swa unimete swiðe þet he for wohlech sende hire his sonden, an efter oðer, ofte somet monie; sende hire beawbelez baðe feole ant feire, sucurs of liueneð, help of his hehe hird to halden hire castel.

  • Richard II (Penguin Monarchs): A Brittle Glory
    Richard II (Penguin Monarchs): A Brittle Glory

    Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The ...

  • The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
    The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation

    Keynes, Simon, 'The Declining Reputation of King Æthelred the Unready', in David Hill (ed.), Ethelred the Unready: Papers from the Millenary Conference (BAR, 1978), 227–53. Keynes, Simon, The Diplomas of King Æthelred 'The Unready' ...

  • The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
    The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation

    This book describes and seeks to explain the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Change can be perceived everywhere at this time.

  • Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer
    Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer

    Judith Weiss (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009) Lawman, Brut, trans. Rosamund Allen (London: Dent, 1993) The Mabinogion, trans. Jeffrey Gantz (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976) The Quest of the Holy ...

  • Richard II: A Brittle Glory (Penguin Monarchs)
    Richard II: A Brittle Glory (Penguin Monarchs)

    Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The ...

  • New Medieval Literatures 20
    New Medieval Literatures 20

    called the 'intentionality or forethought' in visual aspects of writing.14 Moreover, one can often infer from these books a conscious ... or patrons, their 14 Carrie Griffin, Instructional Writing in English, 1350–1650: Materiality ...

  • Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066
    Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066

    The essays in this volume offer multidisciplinary perspectives on a century of conquest: in politics, law, governance, and religion; in art, literature, economics, and culture; and in the lives and experiences of peoples in a changing, ...

  • Richard II (Penguin Monarchs): A Brittle Glory
    Richard II (Penguin Monarchs): A Brittle Glory

    Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The ...

  • Medieval and Early Modern Religious Cultures: Essays Honouring Vincent Gillespie on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday
    Medieval and Early Modern Religious Cultures: Essays Honouring Vincent Gillespie on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

    ... like a well-watered plant besides the streams in the valleys of mount Syon.') See, e.g., Reeve, Thirteenth-Century Wall-Painting, pp. 23–27; Andrew Reeves, Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England: The Creed and Articles of ...

  • New Medieval Literatures 23
    New Medieval Literatures 23

    Prologue', the period of her fourth marriage is characterized through the combination of Holy Land pilgrimage and the ... 49 For medieval women pilgrims to Jerusalem, see Leigh Ann Craig, Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as ...

  • The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 1: 1000-1350, Conquest and Transformation

    This volume explores the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350.

  • New Medieval Literatures 22
    New Medieval Literatures 22

    ... the Ten Commandments in two : for þei schulde be frelier in mynde been departed in ten and in two bope ... Early Modern Culture ( Leiden , 2017 ) . 57 This catechetical purpose is clear in the cluster of manuscripts that contain the same ...

  • New Medieval Literatures 24
    New Medieval Literatures 24

    ... Literary Culture Abroad (Oxford, 2020); Dirk Schoenaers and Alisa van de Haar, 'Een bouc in walsche, a Book Written in French: Francophone Literature in the Low Countries', Queeste 28 (2021), 1–29; Medieval Francophone Literary Culture ...

  • New Medieval Literatures 21
    New Medieval Literatures 21

    Essays in this volume engage with a wide range of subject matter, from as far back as Livy (d.c.AD 12/18) to Erwin Panofsky (d. 1968).