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“THE BALLAD OF GOOD ADVICE” AND SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY IN THE LATE 16TH – EARLY 17TH CENTURY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 5 (170). P. 217-224

The article considers a set of ideas about the rules of morality and behavior, as they are recorded in the English broadside ballads. The article indicates the cognitive possibilities of this type of sources in the study of social and psychological characteristics of English society. The thematic group of broadsides, containing sets of good advice is specified and analyzed. The analysis of the texts reveals a complex characteristic meanings and intonations in the ballads, showing its dynamics during the second half of 16th – 17th centuries. The author comes to the conclusion of the gradual strengthening of rational motivations, sidelining religious ones. The changes of ideas about the hierarchy of power in the family and society are also shown. The multiplicity of proposed “right” behavior strategies in creating a family and work is noted as well as optimistic intonations of the ballads of good advice.

Keywords: England of the early modern time, areal literature, social history, history of everyday life, family history

16TH CENTURY ENGLISH BROADSIDE EPITAPHS AND SHAPING OF HISTORICAL MEMORY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 6 (195). P. 137-142

Characteristics of printed broadside epitaph are given in the article and a brief outline of its existence in the late 16th century is presented together with some notions about its place among other texts and rituals that shaped the final memory about the deceased. More consideration is given to the fact that there are genre similarities and distinctions between broadside epitaphs and literary funeral elegies of the period, elegy being more refined according to the standards of classical education and more personalized. It is shown that compared to epigraphic epitaph and funeral elegy broadside epitaph still has not got sufficient attention in historical research as a specific part of memorial literature, the article trying to fill up the gap. Resources of broadside epitaph in shaping the memory of a person are discussed, also some particular occasions of individual memorization are noted, though in general broadside epitaphs are shown as texts that were aimed to construction of communal memorization and communal solidarity. Some social, gender and national features most characteristic to depiction of the deceased in broadside funerary ballad of Elizabethan England are explored. Also the place of these features in the value system of the English society in late 16th century is shown.

Keywords: Early Modern England, social history, history of memory, broadside literature, epitaph