Vztah ženy a feudálního pána v českých a slovenských baladách

• Authors: Anna Veliká

Title variants

EN

Czech and Slovak folk ballads with the theme of woman and feudal lord

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Women/girls are most often portrayed in Czech and Slovak folk ballads in connection with love. In ballads expressing love between feudal lords and common women/girls we can observe different portrayals of women. In these ballads we find women/girls in the position of the feudal lord’s victims as well as in the position of the feudal lord’s wifes to be. Especially in Slovak ballads we can also find women in the position of feudal ladies, which makes up a special category of ballads. These ballads have been divided into three main groups based on the relationship of the woman/girl to the feudal lord: i. Ballads with one-sided love, (where the woman/girl doesn’t return the feudal lord’s love) ii. Ballads with mutual love and iii. Ballads portraying the feudal lady. Generally, the majority of these ballads reflect a historical-social phenomenon: the lower social position of women.

Keywords

EN

ballads; women/girls; feudal lords

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 25_(67)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 34-53
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Anna Veliká

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic