Papers by Patricia Fumerton
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Nov 17, 2022
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Patricia Fumerton investigates English "heyday" broadside ballads, wherein single-sided sheets of... more Patricia Fumerton investigates English "heyday" broadside ballads, wherein single-sided sheets of paper by the late sixteenth century expanded in size to accommodate lots of decorative black-letter text, divided into two parts (the second part pursuing the verse and tune of the f irst), as well as an abundance of woodcut illustrations and other ornaments, and, of course, the required tune title(s). The English heyday broadside ballad lasted until circa 1690, by which time ornamentation (except for musical notation), tune titles, and black letter temporarily died out for some 15 to 20 years (the ballad's size forever diminished and black-letter text never made a comeback beyond the occasional word or phrase).
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Nov 17, 2022
made for suburban policing too: the Westminster court of burgesses show some shared preoccupation... more made for suburban policing too: the Westminster court of burgesses show some shared preoccupations with the city governors in the early seventeenth century; one can use the constables' accounts of the precinct of St Katherine's to show active policing. I suspect, however, that we would agree that the case is rather harder to make. Only by tackling the tangled variety of institutions and personnel charged with policing can one make proper sense of crime in the city. In that respect perhaps Griffiths has fallen short of his ambitious goals.
Focusing on the expansive English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu, ... more Focusing on the expansive English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu, containing over 2,000 distinct 17th-century woodcut illustrations, our proposed Ballad Illustration Archive (BIA) will allow unprecedented access to these hard-to-access images that are important cultural and artistic productions. Our project will make significant technological inroads through innovative integration of computer vision software and human cataloguing, delivering to the end-user a product which is technically cutting-edge and marked by careful scholarship. It will thus enable enhanced research in multiple humanities disciplines and also make these compelling images available to the interested non-specialist public. Ultimately, we see this project expanding to include a wider variety of early modern illustrations; we also expect it to expand the possibilities for future digital scholarship.
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, 1998
Operations Research, 1960
With 12,500 members from nearly 90 countries, INFORMS is the largest international association of... more With 12,500 members from nearly 90 countries, INFORMS is the largest international association of operations research (O.R.) and analytics professionals and students. INFORMS provides unique networking and learning opportunities for individual professionals, and organizations of all types and sizes, to better understand and use O.R. and analytics tools and methods to transform strategic visions and achieve better outcomes. For more information on INFORMS, its publications, membership, or meetings visit
Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture, 2016
Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture for the first time explor... more Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture for the first time explores comparatively the dynamic process of group formation through the production and appropriation of songs in various European countries and regions.
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2016
huntington library quarterly | vol. 79, no. 2 163 this special issue was inspired by a two-day in... more huntington library quarterly | vol. 79, no. 2 163 this special issue was inspired by a two-day interdisciplinary conference of the same title, held at the Huntington Library April 4–5, 2014. I do not use the word inspired lightly. Normally, I would take pains to distinguish a special issue from being “just” a duplication of a conference, and in that mode, I can provide assurance that indeed this issue offers a selection of papers from those presented at the event, significantly expanded and honed. It also includes essays by scholars who were present at the conference but did not present papers there. I have now used the word present three times, and with good reason. Those who were involved in “Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550–1750” were present in every sense of the word. They immersed themselves in the happenings of the event, which extended far beyond formal presentations into a multimedia lived experience. For this reason, I want to focus on the conference as an extended moment of experiential scholarship and learning. The conference had two goals, the first of which was to celebrate the inclusion of the Huntington Library’s sixteenthand seventeenth-century English broadside ballads—521 items, to be exact—in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu, a resource housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As the director of EBBA, I am especially excited to include the Huntington’s ballads in the database—composed of facsimile images, transcriptions, recordings, and catalogue records of not only texts but also tunes and woodcut illustrations— because the Library’s holdings represent a wide range of the 11,000 to 12,000 extant ballads printed in English before 1701. Most significantly, the Huntington holds 90 of the estimated 250 extant sixteenth-century English broadside ballads.1 Having such a
English Studies, 2012
Page 1. a] ASHGATE Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 Edited by PATRICIA FUMERTON and A... more Page 1. a] ASHGATE Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 Edited by PATRICIA FUMERTON and ANITA GUERRINI with the assistance of KRIS McABEE Page 2. Patricia Fumerton is Professor of English at the University ...
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry
ESC: English Studies in Canada
Material London, ca. 1600, 2000
Oral Tradition, 2013
The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu, hosted at the Universi... more The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu, hosted at the University of California-Santa Barbara, was founded in 2003 to render pre-1700 English broadside ballads fully accessible as texts, art, songs, and cultural records. EBBA focuses especially on the broadside ballads of the seventeenth century because that period was the "heyday" of the genre. 1 In their heyday, ballads were printed on one side of large sheets of paper (hence "broad"-side) mostly in swirling, decorative, black-letter (or what we today call "Gothic") typeface, embellished with many woodcuts and other ornamentation, and labeled with a tune title printed just below the song title. These alluring multimedia artifacts addressed multifarious topics-often from more than one perspective-to catch the interest of a wide audience. 2 But such ballads were also the cheapest form of printed materials in the period-costing on average just a penny at the beginning of the seventeenth century and dropping to half a penny by its end-so as to ensure their affordability to all but the indigent. As cheap entertainment, they were then rather ephemeral items, printed quickly on poor quality sheets that would often be folded and carried about by their purchasers or pasted up on a wall as a poor man's decoration. Such cheap, transferable wares would frequently be re-used as disposable "waste" paper to reinforce book bindings or as kindling, toilet paper, and so forth. Any broadsides that were pasted up would soon be painted or plastered over. Because of their transience, comparably few of the millions of copies printed have survived, and those that still remain are dispersed across the United Kingdom and the United States, carefully guarded by the libraries and museums that hold them. Most websites, even the admirable Bodleian Library's ballad database (http:// ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk), represent only a small sampling of the total number of extant seventeenth-century broadside ballads-estimated by EBBA to be roughly 10,000-11,000 items. EBBA's goal, however, is to make accessible all holdings of these early broadside ballads through a single site, where they are extensively catalogued and accessible by both simple and advanced search functions. Furthermore, unlike any other site that includes printed ballads, we offer high-quality color photography and different viewings of the originals: as album sheet
Histoire sociale/Social history, 2010
DIVIDED by three centuries, these differing visions of London offer images and elicit emotions th... more DIVIDED by three centuries, these differing visions of London offer images and elicit emotions that would have been all too familiar to the Tudor and Hanoverian Englishmen and women for whom they were written. The first anonymous sixteenth century quotation, drawn from the aptly titled poem London and once ascribed to the Scottish poet and priest William Dunbar, provides readers with idyllic impressions of a city (and its people) divinely blessed with virtue, wealth, beauty, and learning. London was, quite literally, in the eyes of the poet, “Soveraign of cities.” Over the next two or three centuries, London not only came to dominate the British Isles, but it also became the metropole of a burgeoning archipelagic, and then global, empire. Moreover, as it grew in size and scope
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