附註:"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.
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.
