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Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants'' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form. Significant aspects of the literary scene, such as patronage, audience, and performance, help to place Chaucer''s practices in their historical framework, and his treatment of love, paganism, and reality are framed within their intellectual and philosophical contexts. The modern reception of Chaucer in film and television adaptations is also examined. Seen through the lens of his cultural experience, this is the perfect critical companion to Chaucer''s life and poetry. The book includes a chronology of Chaucer''s life and time, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Le grandi storie non hanno quasi mai un lieto fine. Fu così anche per i Beatles, sul cui scioglimento si sono versati fiumi di inchiostro e di veleno. Per decenni abbiamo sentito ipotesi sulle cause che avrebbero scatenato questa epocale separazione, ascoltato le (contraddittorie) versioni di giornalisti e confidenti, ma mai prima d''ora abbiamo avuto accesso alle confessioni contenute in questo libro. Nell''autunno del 1980, poco prima della tragica morte di John Lennon, l''ex direttore operativo della Apple Corp, Peter Brown, e lo scrittore Steven Gaines intervistarono Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr e tutti i membri della ristretta cerchia dei Beatles. Una piccola parte di queste testimonianze confluì nel loro bestseller internazionale The Love You Make (1983), ma nei loro archivi è rimasto un tesoro nascosto, fatto di interviste uniche ed estremamente sincere, che i due hanno tenuto nascoste fino a oggi, per oltre quarant''anni. All You Need Is Love è un''opera potente, che raccoglie e riporta alla luce confessioni oneste, intime e affascinanti, un libro che offre tutta la verità sugli ultimi giorni dei Beatles e la lascia raccontare ai protagonisti di quel momento storico su cui - da troppo tempo - gravano le nebbie della diceria e della leggenda.

This publication offers both a timely reflection on the challenges faced and the approaches developed over the course of the pandemic and a look into the future at ways in which the skills and insights gained may bring about beneficial lasting changes in the teaching and learning of languages.

Dirty Enlightenment is a stripped-down, radical presentation of the Nature of Reality and your spiritual place in it. In actuality, you are a miraculously present infinite field of transcendental being presenting itself to itself as subtle radiant energy of pure intelligence. This truth is consonant with the view of Dzogchen, Kashmir Shaivism, Kundalini Yoga, primal Buddhism, and with all radical spiritual traditions. Since this is already and eternally the sole condition, the spiritual challenge is merely to recognize that this is the case. With the simple recognition of the nature of your actual condition, you are freed from the confused implications of any misinterpretations of what your condition is, that you may have been laboring under. The apparent "imperfection" that you may believe your life to be, is in fact already and inherently an entirely transcendental, miraculous eternal perfection, and it can be easy to discover this fact with self-verifying certainty.

First off let me just say that this book had started out as a senior paper in college, previously titled, ''Flixrapeutic'' that involves cinema therapy with the art of watching films. Moreover, exploring the question can films transform a life? While discovering the answer through using the power of film to find healing and growth, as you will find journal entries from my cinema therapy sessions. In addition, scholarly research on the chronology of films, analyzing the art of watching films and studying a lists of my favorite great film actors as one will learn the transformational effects of positive psychology in the movies to find self-healing. To add, you''ll be taken on a cinematic transformational journey as I use my faith in Jesus Christ to help with the use of the power of film as a tool for intervention while I want to share my testimony with a world of Millennials. So, explore the mystery with me and see what you might find as you just might discover something new... or a new way to experience something that''s been around for decades.

The second part of the third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown continues the geographical tour of the mid-19th-to early-20th-century symphony begun in Vol. 3A. Brown discusses works from England, Russia, and France—including those by Potter, Bennett, Stanford, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Gounod, Bizet, Franck, Dukas, and many others. A single source provides a detailed analysis of stylistic traits and background material on the composition and performances of these masterpieces. Brown''s series synthesizes an enormous amount of scholarly literature in a wide range of languages. It presents current overviews of the status of research, discusses important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples early writings on their reception. There are overviews of the symphony as a genre and in-depth analysis of particular aspects of the symphony (such as composer, period, or instrument). No other book or series of books allows for the in-depth musical analysis and historical context that Brown provides in each volume of The Symphonic Repertoire.

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world''s foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity''s growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

Lucy, a young bear, starts her day determined to make a new friend but her enthusiasm leads to all sorts of problems until, just as she is about to give up, an unexpected friend finds her.