Introduction
1. Patricia Fumerton, Pavel Kosek, and Marie Hanzelková: The History and Reception of Czech Broadside Ballads within Local, Regional, and Global Contexts
Czech Broadside Ballads
General Overview
2. Ji.í Dufka: Broadside Ballads as Artefacts
3. Jakub Ivánek: The Czech Broadside Ballad in Its Historical, Social, and Literary Context
4. Jan Malura: The Origins of Czech Broadside Ballads in Sixteenth-Century News Leaflets
5. Michaela Soleiman pour Hashemi: Previous Research on Broadside Ballads, with a Particular Focus on Literary History
6. Ji.í Dufka, V.ra Frolcová, Markéta Holubová, Iva Byd.ovská, Jitka Machová, Hana Glombová, Romana Machá.ková: Three Collections of Czech Broadside Ballads: Creating, Organizing, and Providing Access
Topics
7. Hana Bo.ková: Finding Justice: Punishment in Broadside Ballads
8. Marie Hanzelková: Broadside Ballads and Religious Pilgrimage Songs: The Virgin Mary of Vranov
9. Markéta Holubová: Women in Broadside Ballads: Roles and Stereotypes
10. Maciej M.trak: Give the Devil His Due: Demons and Demonic Presence in Czech Broadside Ballads
11. Jana Poláková: Reality and Fiction in Broadside Ballads and Their Contemporary Reception: A Case Study
Musicology and Transmission
12. Kate.ina Smy.ková: Broadside Ballads as a Printed Medium and the Rise of Literacy
13. Tomá. Slavick.: Melodies of Czech Broadside Ballads in the Historical Contexts of Song Culture
14. V.ra Frolcová: The Melodies of Broadside Ballads and Pilgrimage Songs and the Many Media of the Song Tradition
15. Peter Ru..in: Czech Religious Broadside Ballads in Slovak Manuscript Hymnals of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
Language
16. Jana Pleskalová and Olga Navrátilová: The Language of Czech Popular Broadside Ballads: Revisiting the Low
17. Pavel Kosek, Veronika Bromová, Alena Andrlová Fidlerová, Dmitrij Timofejev: The Orthography of Czech Broadside Ballads from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Wider Context
18. Patricia Fumerton: English “Heyday” Broadside Ballads
19. Piotr Grochowski: Broadside Ballads in Poland: Content, Forms, and Research Perspectives
20. Monika Szturcová: Czech-Polish Interrelations: The Example of Marian Songs in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
21. Kate.ina B.ezinová: Roaming Heroes and Their Ballads: Brazilian Cordel Narratives in the Context of the Global Broadside Ballad Tradition
List of Figures and Tables
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Contributors