The Ballad in Scottish History

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The Ballad in Scottish History Edited by Edward J. Cowan. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000. 184 pp. Illus. ISBN: 1 86232 008 X. £16.99

Ever since the historian Macaulay drew on contemporaneous broadsides for his famous life-like sketches, the value of this source of information to the student of history has been a matter of dispute. If the history to be gleaned from ballads is only fragmentary and fugitive, random bits rather than coherent narratives, should it not be dismissed? In their works on Sagen (Historical Legends), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm maintained that ballads - despite their ...

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