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Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving
Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates
a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur.
Der neue Band aus der Reihe International Society of Neuropathology
wurde anlasslich der British Medical Association (BMA) Awards 2019
warmstens empfohlen. Die Herausgeber sind Experten des Fachgebiets
und beschreiben Infektionen des Nervensystems mit ihren klinischen,
pathologischen und genetischen Eigenheiten. Auch seltene
Erkrankungen werden in ubersichtlichen Kapiteln erlautert, zusammen
mit Definitionen, mikrobiologischen Eigenschaften, Epidemiologie,
klinischen Auspragungen, Labortests, Pathologie, Genetik und
Behandlungsoptionen.
The Ark of Speech investigates the interplay of speech and silence
in the dialogue between God and human beings, and human beings and
the world. Ranging from the Old Testament and its depiction of
God's creative word to the New Testament and its focus on the life
and words of Jesus as the Word of the Father, the book shows how
important it is for the believer to listen to God and to others in
silence and devotion.
Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving
Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates
a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur.
The Ark of Speech investigates the interplay of speech and silence in the dialogue between God and human beings, and human beings and the world. Ranging from the Old Testament and its depiction of God's creative word to the New Testament and its focus on the life and words of Jesus as the Word of the Father, the book shows how important it is for the believer to listen to God and to others in silence and devotion.
An expertly written French B course now updated for first
examination 2020, providing students with thought-provoking
materials to help them develop strong language skills and solid
critical thinking. The workbook provides students with extra
practice as they explore the five themes from the new IB Diploma
Language B guide: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social
organisation and sharing the planet. It helps students further
develop their French language skills with additional exercises
complementing the activities in the coursebook. With activities
suitable for both standard and higher level students, the workbook
is ideal for teachers needing differentiated exercises for their
class and can be used for independent study. Answers to the
workbook questions are in the teacher's resource.
As China gains momentum in economic terms, its technological
transformation, cultural confidence, and creative influence also
grow steadily. This book explores socio-cultural context, in which
new trends, enabled by the power of digital technology, emerge.
Focused on the urban context, in China's large cities like
Shanghai, and through the lens of art, design, fashion, gaming, and
media industries, this book highlights innovation processes in the
making, as well as ongoing shifts in Chinese identities and
narratives. This collaborative work written by European authors
based in China offer new insights from within. Their shared, yet
multi-faceted, engagement with China and its creative industries
culminates in this book written for international scholars,
students, and industry players.
Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government
designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest
Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur
traders toiled, and Metis families homesteaded. In Culturing
Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other
writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca
River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human
history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies'
largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an
interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection
in this long overdue study of Jasper.
The first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling
body of tales contained in Chretien's poem and its four
Continuations. The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first
appearance in literature in Chretien de Troyes' Perceval at the end
of the twelfth century. But Chretien never finished his poem,
leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail.
It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did
it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was
continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other
writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever
translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales
contained in Chretien's poem and its four Continuations, which are
finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides
Chretien's original text, there are the anonymous First
Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second
Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing
Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously,
with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert
de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes
explaining the background to Chretien's story, and translated here
also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only
in this, The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader
appreciate the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets
and their surprising responses to Chretien's theme - not least
their crucial focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally,
Chretien's original poem was almost always copied in conjunction
withone or more of the Continuations, so this translation
represents how most medieval readers would have encountered it.
Nigel Bryant's previous translations from Medieval French include
Perlesvaus - the High Bookof the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy
Merlin and the Grail, the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True
Chronicles of Jean le Bel and Perceforest.
Being a physician is an amazing privilege, and it can be a deeply
rewarding career...but first you have to get through medical
school. Students, who were often at the top of their class prior to
medical school, now find themselves surrounded by equally bright,
hardworking, overachieving classmates and facing new challenges
from rigorous curricula to specialty selection to navigation of
unchartered territories of mentorship, clinical rotations, and
research. Thriving in medical school requires more than smarts—it
requires new learning strategies, organization, time management,
teamwork skills, mentorship, adaptability, resilience, and more.
This book brings together advice from medical educators, practicing
physicians, and current medical students to help new medical
students not just survive medical school but handle the transition
with grace and position them to succeed and thrive.
We had the pleasure and the great opportunity to organize a
symposium on "Molecular Biology of Brain and Endocrine Peptidergic
Systems" under the auspices of the Canadian Biochemical society and
the International Foundation for Biochemical Endocrinology. We were
indeed very happy to ass ble a series of first rate speakers who
delivered excellent papers on a variety of subjects from the
synthesis of complicated peptide analogs, to the creation of
trangenic mice, site-directed mutagenesis, enzyme characterization
and DNA binding sites. One hundred and seventy-five participants
attended the 40 conferences while having the opportunity to look at
24 posters presented by senior scientists as well as students. We,
of the organizing committee, feel extremely pleased to have
received an overwhelming response from such a group of scholars. We
wish to express our sincere gratitude to Mrs. Diane Marcil who
arranged most aspects of the meeting with efficiency. We also thank
the different organizations and companies for their generous grants
which made the reunion possible. We hope that the participants have
gained scientifically while having a pleasant sojourn in beautiful
Montreal. The organizing committee was made up of a group of
dedicated people, particularly its secretary, Dr. Philippe Crine.
To all speakers and sessions chairpersons, we are indebted for the
excellence of their participation.
The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in
literature in Chretien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the
twelfth century. But Chretien never finished his poem, leaving an
unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was,
however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it
inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued
and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The
Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the
whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in
Chretien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally
attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chretien's
original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation
(translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation
attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and
Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no
knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de
Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining
the background to Chretien's story, and translated here also are
their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only in this,
The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader appreciate
the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets and their
surprising responses to Chretien's theme - not least their crucial
focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally, Chretien's original
poem was almost always copied in conjunction withone or more of the
Continuations, so this translation represents how most medieval
readers would have encountered it. Nigel Bryant's previous
translations from Medieval French include Perlesvaus - the High
Bookof the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy Merlin and the Grail,
the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True Chronicles of Jean le
Bel and Perceforest.
The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie,
founded by Gustav Groeber in 1905, is among the most renowned
publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of
Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as
the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome
submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all
areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual
criticism. The publication languages of the series are French,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and
English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in
its contents and in the choice of languages.
Fantastic adventures abound in these courtly romances: Erec and Enide, Cligés, The Knight of the Cart, The Knight with the Lion, and The Story of the Grail.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune,
leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Loewy offer a deeply
informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might
have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had
travelled to Paris during the heady weeks of April 1871. In
disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and
Jenny encounter and debate many important figures of the movement,
including Leo Frankel, Eugene Varlin, Charles Longuet, Elisabeth
Dmitrieff, and Louise Michel, eventually returning to England with
a profoundly changed sense of political possibility.
The first English-language publication of a major history of the
Great Lakes region of Africa. Though the genocide of 1994
catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language
historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern
Africa-which encompasses Burundi, eastern Congo, Rwanda, western
Tanzania, and Uganda-are scarce. Drawing on colonial archives, oral
tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic
studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chretien
offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still
plagued by extremely violent wars. This translation brings the work
of a leading French historian to an English-speaking audience for
the first time. Chretien retraces the human settlement and the
formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were
"discovered" by European explorers around 1860. He describes these
kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes
how German, British, and Belgian colonizers not only transformed
and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected
their own racial categories onto them. Finally, he shows how the
independent states of the postcolonial era, in particular Burundi,
Rwanda, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and
precolonial legacies, especially by the racial rewriting of the
latter by the former. Today, argues Chretien, the Great Lakes of
Africa is a crucial region for historical research-not only because
its history is fascinating but also because the tragedies of its
present are very much a function of the political manipulations of
its past.
The twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes is a major
figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the
Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England
as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of
capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking
audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his
poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of
medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of
Chretien's major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly
captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French
original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is
ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In
addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of
the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it
evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant
medieval past.
The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of
medieval legends. Chretien de Troyes' Perceval is the most
important single Arthurian romance. It contains the very first
mention of the mysterious grail, later to become the Holy Grail and
the focal point of the spiritual quest of the knights of Arthur's
court. Chretien left the poem unfinished, but the extraordinary and
intriguing theme of the Grail was too good to leave, and other
poets continued and eventually completed it. This is the only
English translation to include selections from the three
continuations and from the work of Gerbert de Montreuil, making the
romance a coherent whole, and following through Chretien's
essential theme of the making of a knight, in both worldlyand
spiritual terms. It is thus the most complete account available in
English of the essential Arthurian romance, the origin of the Grail
legend.
In the aptly titled The Call and the Response, renowned philosopher
and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien revisits a favorite theme: how
human life is shaped by the experience of call and response,
explored with art as the context. For Chretien, art is about acts
in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts
provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and intellectual
without being academic, his arguments are unique, both in style and
content.
Tells the story of The Russian Revolution with riveting eyewitness
accounts. One hundred years ago, workers and peasants in Russia
turned the world upside down when they overthrew their Tsar, took
over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a
new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand
observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and
sometimes tragic story of what happened over the course of 1917.
Includes contributions from: Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir
Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryans, and others.
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien uses
poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his
work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and
response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of
experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In
luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine,
Keats, and other artists, Chretien shows how "talking hands of
painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets confront the
finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured
renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual
presence.
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien uses
poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his
work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and
response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of
experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In
luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine,
Keats, and other artists, Chretien shows how "talking hands of
painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets confront the
finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured
renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual
presence.
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