Mary-Ann Constantine is a Reader in Welsh and English literature at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Her work is concerned with the relations between and mutual influence of the different cultures and languages of Britain (and to some extent beyond) in the late-C18th and early-C19th centuries. She has published books on Breton folklore, ballads and songs, Romantic-era forgery, and Welsh responses to the French Revolution. Her current work is focused on travel writing, the Welsh Tour, and the writings of Thomas Pennant (1726-98).Éva Guillorel is an Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Université de Caen Normandie. Her studies have included History, Ethnology and Celtic Languages, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships in Brittany, Québec, United States and England. Her works is concerned with oral cultures and languages in early modern Europe and Americas, mainly songs. She published her Ph.D. on the links between Breton Ballads and History. Her current work is focused on the circulation and transformation of oral cultures over space and time, including cultural transfers between Europe and North America.

• IntroductionThe BalladsLord Count and the FairySaint Henori and the King of BrestSkolvan, a penitent soulMaharit Laurans saved from the gallowsDom Jean Derrian's journey to Santiago de CompostelaSaint Iañn Bubry, murderer and rapistBerhet, midwife to the Virgin MaryThe plague in LangonnetThe bridegroom and the mad dogSeven years at seaShipwreck at Penmarc'hThe siege of GuingampThe Heiress of Keroulaz: a forced marriageLord Villaudrain and the merchantsFontanelle and his banditsThe kidnap and suicide of Jeannedig ar RousMarharit Charles and her banditsLove and Leprosy: Iannik KokardJanedig the witchThe wax childThe lead towerCleric Laoudour and his sweetheartThe murder of Lord PenangerThe reprieve of ContrechapellMarivonnik abducted by English sailorsSea-changes: Catherin An TroadecInfanticide and penance: Mari KelenThe murdered servant girlThe drowning of Toussaint de KerguézecThe execution of the Marquis de PontcallecLoeiz Er Ravalleg murdered by his friendsThe twice-married womanThe recruit: Garan Ar BrizThe death of the chouan Jean JanOur Lady of Port-Blanc

Miracles & Murders is almost the perfect book within the scope it sets itself, being an 'introductory anthology'. If you read only one book about gwerzioù (and if you are in any branch of Celtic studies whatsoever, you should), this is it ... [F]or someone not looking for more avenues of research to pursue, but simply wanting to get a taste of the gwerzioù, there is little more to be said. I praise the book highly.

Mary-Ann Constantine is a Reader in Welsh and English literature at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Her work is concerned with the relations between and mutual influence of the different cultures and languages of Britain (and to some extent beyond) in the late-C18th and early-C19th centuries. She has published books on Breton folklore, ballads and songs, Romantic-era forgery, and Welsh responses to the French Revolution. Her current work is focused on travel writing, the Welsh Tour, and the writings of Thomas Pennant (1726-98).Éva Guillorel is an Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Université de Caen Normandie. Her studies have included History, Ethnology and Celtic Languages, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships in Brittany, Québec, United States and England. Her works is concerned with oral cultures and languages in early modern Europe and Americas, mainly songs. She published her Ph.D. on the links between Breton Ballads and History. Her current work is focused on the circulation and transformation of oral cultures over space and time, including cultural transfers between Europe and North America.

• IntroductionThe BalladsLord Count and the FairySaint Henori and the King of BrestSkolvan, a penitent soulMaharit Laurans saved from the gallowsDom Jean Derrian's journey to Santiago de CompostelaSaint Iañn Bubry, murderer and rapistBerhet, midwife to the Virgin MaryThe plague in LangonnetThe bridegroom and the mad dogSeven years at seaShipwreck at Penmarc'hThe siege of GuingampThe Heiress of Keroulaz: a forced marriageLord Villaudrain and the merchantsFontanelle and his banditsThe kidnap and suicide of Jeannedig ar RousMarharit Charles and her banditsLove and Leprosy: Iannik KokardJanedig the witchThe wax childThe lead towerCleric Laoudour and his sweetheartThe murder of Lord PenangerThe reprieve of ContrechapellMarivonnik abducted by English sailorsSea-changes: Catherin An TroadecInfanticide and penance: Mari KelenThe murdered servant girlThe drowning of Toussaint de KerguézecThe execution of the Marquis de PontcallecLoeiz Er Ravalleg murdered by his friendsThe twice-married womanThe recruit: Garan Ar BrizThe death of the chouan Jean JanOur Lady of Port-Blanc

Miracles & Murders is almost the perfect book within the scope it sets itself, being an 'introductory anthology'. If you read only one book about gwerzioù (and if you are in any branch of Celtic studies whatsoever, you should), this is it ... [F]or someone not looking for more avenues of research to pursue, but simply wanting to get a taste of the gwerzioù, there is little more to be said. I praise the book highly.

Mary-Ann Constantine is a Reader in Welsh and English literature at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Her work is concerned with the relations between and mutual influence of the different cultures and languages of Britain (and to some extent beyond) in the late-C18th and early-C19th centuries. She has published books on Breton folklore, ballads and songs, Romantic-era forgery, and Welsh responses to the French Revolution. Her current work is focused on travel writing, the Welsh Tour, and the writings of Thomas Pennant (1726-98).Éva Guillorel is an Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Université de Caen Normandie. Her studies have included History, Ethnology and Celtic Languages, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships in Brittany, Québec, United States and England. Her works is concerned with oral cultures and languages in early modern Europe and Americas, mainly songs. She published her Ph.D. on the links between Breton Ballads and History. Her current work is focused on the circulation and transformation of oral cultures over space and time, including cultural transfers between Europe and North America.

• IntroductionThe BalladsLord Count and the FairySaint Henori and the King of BrestSkolvan, a penitent soulMaharit Laurans saved from the gallowsDom Jean Derrian's journey to Santiago de CompostelaSaint Iañn Bubry, murderer and rapistBerhet, midwife to the Virgin MaryThe plague in LangonnetThe bridegroom and the mad dogSeven years at seaShipwreck at Penmarc'hThe siege of GuingampThe Heiress of Keroulaz: a forced marriageLord Villaudrain and the merchantsFontanelle and his banditsThe kidnap and suicide of Jeannedig ar RousMarharit Charles and her banditsLove and Leprosy: Iannik KokardJanedig the witchThe wax childThe lead towerCleric Laoudour and his sweetheartThe murder of Lord PenangerThe reprieve of ContrechapellMarivonnik abducted by English sailorsSea-changes: Catherin An TroadecInfanticide and penance: Mari KelenThe murdered servant girlThe drowning of Toussaint de KerguézecThe execution of the Marquis de PontcallecLoeiz Er Ravalleg murdered by his friendsThe twice-married womanThe recruit: Garan Ar BrizThe death of the chouan Jean JanOur Lady of Port-Blanc

Miracles & Murders is almost the perfect book within the scope it sets itself, being an 'introductory anthology'. If you read only one book about gwerzioù (and if you are in any branch of Celtic studies whatsoever, you should), this is it ... [F]or someone not looking for more avenues of research to pursue, but simply wanting to get a taste of the gwerzioù, there is little more to be said. I praise the book highly.