This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and mus

This selection includes more than eighty of the finest ballads, together with an introduction, notes and glosses. The versions come from the last three centurie

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes writ

Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, a

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the