The singer and the scribe European ballad traditions and European ballad cultures (Rodopi, 2004)
"This volume of essays began as a colloquium of the Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies Programme of the University of Edinburgh, held on Saturday 27 May, 2000"--Acknowledgement. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Balladry in the medieval Greek world / Roderick Beaton -- Love story or heroic deed? : (the two faces of Russian balladry : bylinas and ballads) / Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia -- From oral adventure story to literary tale of enchantment : the case of the Count Arnaldos ballad / Huw Lewis -- A morte do Rei D. Fernando and Floresvento : two rare Portuguese epic ballads / Manuel da Costa Fontes -- Fier Margrietken : a medieval ballad and its history / Ad Putter -- Looking up at 'Holger Dansk og Burmand' (DgF 30) / William Layher -- The suppression of a ballad culture : the enigma of medieval France / Philip E. Bennett -- F.J. Child and Mikail Bakhtin / Richard Firth Green -- Echoes of authority : audience and formula in the Scots ballad text / Charles Duffin -- Estrea Aelion, Salonica Sephardic tradition and the ballad of imprisoned Virgil / Margaret Sleeman -- Spanish ballads in a changing world / Roger Wright -- The Stewarts of Fetterangus and literate oral tradition / Thomas A. McKean