...Patricia Fumerton © by Duke University Press 2002 Not Home: Alehouses, Ballads, and the Vagrant Husband in Early Modern England Patricia Fumerton...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Laurie Ellinghausen The “sailor ballads” of the early British Empire employ popular song not only to investigate sailors’ hardships and victories, but to explore the character attributes of seafaring men. This article argues that the range of attitudes and concerns...

... performance dynamics that mirrored those of May games in generating affective responses that encouraged a felt sense of community. To clarify how this worked, I turn to two cognate ballads. The first, “The Lusty Friar of Dublin,” recounts how a friar “was catch'd a Bed with another Man's Wife...

...- mate a medieval metaphor built upon an older technology. A focus on objects as objects is able to resist the ease with which the study of subjectiv- ity has been able to transcend historical context. Rather than looking to the narrative details of broadsheet ballads for a textual representation...

... of recovery: epic, ballad, chronicle, and lyric. As a Spanish national literary school, it first emerges in the writings of Milá y Fontanals, especially his 1874 opus, De la poesía heroica-popular castellana.12 Writing against the dominant French school, who saw the origins...

... at Singer / Penal and Palliative Discourses  105 the battle of Agincourt.34 He is the author of the 3,485-­line Songe de la Barge as well as several surviving letters and a series of ballades exchanged with his squire Guillebert de Lannoy. He is a prominent participant in courtly poetic circles...

... prominence of the crime. Yet even for the “Witch County” of Essex, the numbers of the witches and their victims in pamphlets and ballads were significantly higher than those in surviving indictments in assize records.3 There were important ideological reasons for this boom in witchcraft docu...

... before but rushed to the baptismal font when Christians told them of her existence.38 The same audiences enthralled by such literary fantasies could listen to other stories that even made Muslims into the Virgin’s sworn enemies, as happens in one of the ballads that were such a popular form...

... remained a fertile source for romances, ballads, and plays; see Moseley, “The Metamorphoses of Sir John Mandeville,” Yearbook of English Studies 4 (1974): 5 – 25, at 21. 32 Sir John Mandeville, The Voyages and Trauailes of Sir Iohn Mandeuile Knight (Lon- don, 1612), sig. U2r...

..., it is “Cressid.” Around 1570, Leonarde Gybson uses her sullied reputation to chide con- temporary women in a ballad: “It seemes, by your doynges, that Cressed doth scoole ye, / Penelopeys vertues are cleane out of thought.”1 A few years earlier, the poet George Turberville recalls her betrayal to warn his...

... of representa- tions of Katherine in early modern popular literature.21 In Richard Johnson’s 1612 ballad, “The story of ill may-day,” Katherine intercedes with Henry to pardon “a thousand” London apprentices who killed Spanish foreigners in a bloody massacre, “Though it concern’d her country dear...

.... xv, 462 pp., 32 color illus., 9 line drawings. Hardcover, ebook. Fumerton, Patricia. The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 512 pp., 83 illus. Hardcover, ebook. [Features more than 80 illustrations...

... common sewing materials in noncodex formats such as ballads (stitched together or to backing sheets) and rolls (sewn “chancery style,” head-­to-­foot, or “exchequer style,” head-­to-­head).14 In certain codex books, pages might also become sewing materials by invitation of the book producer...

....”20 In the outlaw ballad “The Bush Ranger,” the hap- less transportee depicts the colony as a wild, lonely wilderness not unlike a medieval forest, lamenting O’er hill and dale like the deer I fly A bush ranger now I’m doom’d to roam...

... recordatio- nis Regis Francorum Ludouici, with three letters on Louis IX’s sanctity by Philip III, Clare Memorie Ludovici, and Jean of Châtillon.] Fumerton, Patricia, ed. Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selec- tion of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings. Medieval and Renaissance Texts...

... as a set- ting for fifteenth-­century chivalric ballads.55 Indeed, Enrique’s adversaries dubbed him el rey impotente, a particularly vicious sobriquet that linked together in a suggestive network his failure to defend the frontier, his pen- chant for Islamic culture, the illegitimacy of his daughter...

... the trial of Duessa and the pamphlets and ballads written to justify Mary’s execution reveals the ways in which Spenser translates the terms of propaganda into some of his most sinuous verse, poetry that casts a skeptical eye upon the very political rhetoric...

... (London, 1653); and Doctor Lambs Darling: or, Strange and terrible News from Salisbury; Being A true, exact, and perfect Relation, of the great and wonderful Contract and Engagement made between the Devil, and Mistris Anne Bodenham (London, 1653). Ballads and libels that deal directly with Lambe include...

..., Political Opinion, and Popular Awareness in the Early Seventeenth Century,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 1 (1991): 43–69; Adam Fox, “Ballads, Libels, and Popular Ridicule in Jacobean England,” Past and Present 145 (Nov. 1994): 47–83; Martin Ingram, “Ridings...

.... With updated downloadable audio tech- nology, featuring readings of passages from Chaucer s works by members at the inaugural meeting of the New Chaucer Society in 1979.] 170 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 51.1 / 2021 Bowden, Betsy. The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake. Studies...