Počátky české kramářské písně v pozdním humanismu?
The origin of the Czech broadside ballad in late humanism?

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on the origin of the Czech Broadside Ballad. The key period for thefirst development of the Czech broadside ballad was late humanism (1590-1620). Theemergence of this phenomenon was largely influenced by leaflet news, which developedconsiderably in the Czech lands in the last decade of the 16th century. In addition to this,the sung news, sensational songs and other song genres began to be printed separatelyin late humanism. Already during this period, these songs had many of the typical featuresof the baroque broadside ballad (simple verse and style, considerable length, the senseof detail, and final moralizing). At the same time, however, they were connected withthe so-called occasional poetry and other phenomena of the bourgeois literary life oflate humanism. In the burgher class, a large group of recipients was being formed at thistime, which can be referred to as the wider public (a social class with certain educationthat was interested in what was happening in society). Nevertheless, it was not until thebaroque period that the broadside ballad became part of mass folk (popular) culture.

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