The ballad genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in terms of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresse
A specialist in ballads, Atkinson tries to make some sense of the unity in diversity exhibited by the folk ballads of the English-speaking world. Like all scholars of the genre, he takes Childe's monu
David Atkinson explores the healing ministry and the miracles of Jesus and their relevance to Christian ministry today. He asks whether suffering can ever be creative and explores how today's conversa
