Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900

Patricia Fumerton is distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, and Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. She has edited nine collections of essays, and authored three monographs. Pavel Kosek is full Professor of Czech Language at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has co-edited four critical editions, three collections of essays, and authored two books. Marie Hanzelková is assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech. She has published several articles about Czech hymn-books from the sixteenth century. Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Macháčková has published several journal articles about the collection of old printings of the Moravian Library and about Czech writers of the twentieth century. Assistant Professor of Czech language at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Republic, https://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/ustav/lide/zamestnanci/mgr-alena-andrlova-fidlerova-ph-d/. Fidlerová has edited one critical edition, three textbooks, and co-authored two books: Repertorium rukopisů 17. a 18. století z muzejních sbírek v Čechách. Part I, A–J, and Part II, K–O (2003) Associate Professor of Czech literature in the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/91-hana-bockova. Bočková has co-edited four critical editions and authored the monograph Knihy nábožné a prosté. K nábožensky vzdělávací slovesné tvorbě doby barokní. Director of the Ibero-American Centre of Metropolitan University in Prague and a research fellow at Complutense University in Madrid: https://www.mup.cz/en/research/research-centres/ibero-american_x0002_centre-iac/our-team/. Březinová is author of monographs and articles that focus on the non-hegemonic processes of identification, mobilities of people and ideas within the Americas, as well as on the historical narratives of exchange and interconnectedness that the period of the Cold War helped to create between Latin America and Central Europe. In her most recent monograph entitled A Different Minority? US Latinos between Kennedy and Trump (2020), she analyzes the U.S. Latinx community in the nexus of transnational migration and citizenship Researcher in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/11829-veronika-bromova. Bromová has authored the monograph Textová struktura nejstarších českých listin se zvláštním zřetelem k vývoji formuláře (2009). Researcher at the National Museum and curator of the collection of broadside ballads and chapbooks and the digital library Špalíček (http://www.spalicek.net/). Bydžovská has published several articles about Czech broadside ballads and has organized two exhibitions. iva.bydzovska@nm.cz Head of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Department of the Moravian Library in Brno (https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books). Dufka has published several articles about the collecting and cataloguing of old printings. His most recent work (with Eva Chodějovská) is a monograph: Sběratel a jeho atlas. Bernard Pavel Moll (2021). Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/pracovnici/vera_x0002_frolcova/. Frolcová has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored two monographs, most recently, Velikonoce v české lidové kultuře, 2nd ed. (2020). Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Glombová co-edited the exhibition catalogue The Wide Road to Brno: Broadside Ballads with Secular Themes (2021). Associate Professor in the Institute of Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, https://www. researchgate.net/profile/Piotr-Grochowski-2. Grochowski is the author of several monographs and papers dealing with Polish broadside ballads, folklore and popular culture, inter alia, Straszna zbrodnia rodzonej matki: Polskie pieśni nowiniarskie na przełomie XIX i XX w. (2010). Piotr.Grochowski@umk.pl Full Professor of Czech literature at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/2257-michaela-soleiman_x0002_pour-hashemi/zivotopis. Hashemi has co-edited four critical editions and two collections of essays, and she has authored two monographs: Karel Račín—nedoceněný barokní autor (2005) and Literární fenomén nepomu_x0002_censké homiletiky (2007) Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/about-us/ staff/marketa-holubova/. She has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored eight monographs, most recently, Etnografický atlas Čech, Moravy a Slezska IX. (2020) Assistant Professor of Czech Literature in the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism and Researcher at the Centre for Regional Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/jakub-ivanek/8855/. Ivánek has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored three books, most recently Horo krásná, spanilá! Poutní písně na Moravě (1600–1850) (2019) Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study_x0002_rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Machová has published Three Collections of Czech Broadside Ballads 153 several journal articles dealing with the early printings in the collections of Moravian Library. Full Professor of Czech Literature at the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/kcl/jan-malura/12695/. Malura has co_x0002_edited three critical editions, co-edited six collections of essays, and co_x0002_authored five books, most recently Horo krásná, spanilá! Poutní písně na Moravě (1600–1850) (2019). Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland), https://ispan.waw.pl/default/ en/employee/maciej-metrak/. Mętrak has published several journal articles about minority languages and cultures, linguistic contact in German-Slavic border areas, and Czech nineteenth-century popular literature (broadside ballads and chapbooks) from a linguistic and anthropological perspective Assistant Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/109306-olga-navratilova. Navrátilová has authored two books, the most recent of which is Slovosled posesivních zájmen ve staré češtině (2018). Full Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/218-jana-pleskalova/zivotopis. Pleskalová has co-edited four collections of essays and authored two books: Tvoření nejstarších českých osobních jmen (1998) and Vývoj vlastních jmen osobních v českých zemích v letech 1000–2010 (2011). Researcher at the Ethnographic Institute, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic, http://www.mzm.cz/etnograficky-ustav. Poláková has published several journal articles about Czech broadside ballads and popular culture and has written two monographs, the most recent of which is Dva životy, dvě kultury, dvě země. Řekové na českém území od 2. poloviny 20. století do současnosti (2020). She has also been the curator of two exhibitions about Czech broadside ballads, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMF8EudGtc. Researcher at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, http://uhv.sav.sk/ustav/vedecki-pracovnici/mgr-peter-ruscin-phd/. Ruščin has edited and co-edited two collections of essays as well as authored two monographs, the most recent of which is Cantus Catholici a tradícia duchovného spevu na Slovensku (2012). peter.ruscin@savba.sk Researcher at the Czech Museum of Music, National Museum, Czech Republic, https://www.nm.cz/slavicky-tomas-phdr-phd. Slavický has co-edited a critical edition (Fridrich Bridelius: Jesličky. Staré nové písničky [2012]) as well as a collection of essays. tomas.slavicky@nm.cz Researcher at the Regional Studies Centre in the Depart_x0002_ment of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/katerina-smyckova/81197/#3-publikacni-cinnost. Smyčková has published several journal articles about Czech hymn books and authored the monograph Krátká věčnost:Vytržení z času v narativních textech od středověku na práh moderní doby (2022). katerina.smyckova@osu.cz Researcher at the Silesian Museum and at the Centre for Regional Studies, Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://www.osu.eu/monika-szturcova/45359/. Szturcová has published several journal articles about Czech and Polish pilgrimage broadside ballads and co-authored a book: Pod ochranu tvou se utíkáme. Kult Panny Marie Čenstochovské v českém Slezsku a na Moravě/Pod twoją obronę uciekamy się. Kult Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej na Śląsku Czeskim i na Morawach (2019) Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Litera_x0002_ture, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/13963-marie-hanzelkova. Hanzelková has published several articles about Czech hymn books from the sixteenth century and about Czech pilgrimage broadside ballads (e.g., “‘Turning’ of Czech Pilgrimage Broadside Ballads” [2021]). marie.hanzelkova@phil.muni.cz. Researcher at the Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, https://ujc.avcr.cz/zakladniinformace/pracovnici/timofejev-dmitrij.html. Timofejev has co-edited six electronic critical editions and co-authored the book Rukopisné zlomky Knihovny Národního muzea, signatury 1 D, 1 E a 1 G (2016)

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