Terry Jones Medieval Lives

Author : Alan Ereira,Terry Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409070450

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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Alan Ereira,Terry Jones Pdf

Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants... and did outlaws never wear trousers? Terry Jones and Alan Ereira are your guides to this most misrepresented and misunderstood period, and they point you to things that will surprise and provoke. Did you know, for example, that medieval people didn't think the world was flat? That was a total fabrication by an American journalist in the 19th century. Did you know that they didn't burn witches in the Middle Ages? That was a refinement of the so-called Renaissance. In fact, medieval kings weren't necessarily merciless tyrants, and peasants entertained at home using French pottery and fine wine. Terry Jones' Medieval Lives reveals Medieval Britain as you have never seen it before - a vibrant society teeming with individuality, intrigue and innovation.

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Politicos Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413777359

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Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer was a spy, a diplomat, and England's finest poet, and yet nothing is known of his death; after 1400, his name simply disappears from the record. Was he the victim of a political murder? In this book, Terry Jones reassesses Chaucer's work and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Author : Faye M. Getz
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299129330

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Healing and Society in Medieval England by Faye M. Getz Pdf

Originally composed in Latin by Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), his Compendium of Medicine was a primary text of the medical revolution in thirteenth-century Europe. Composed mainly of medicinal recipes, it offered advice on diagnosis, medicinal preparation, and prognosis. In the fifteenth-century it was translated into Middle English to accommodate a widening audience for learning and medical “secrets.” Faye Marie Getz provides a critical edition of the Middle English text, with an extensive introduction to the learned, practical, and social components of medieval medicine and a summary of the text in modern English. Getz also draws on both the Latin and Middle English texts to create an extensive glossary of little-known Middle English pharmaceutical and medical vocabulary.

Author : Rosalie Gilbert
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642503081

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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert Pdf

A “wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking” look at romance, courtship, and other intimacies behind closed Medieval doors (Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR). Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern women. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so. Inside The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women, a fascinating book about life during medieval times, you will discover tantalizing true stories about medieval women and a myriad of historical facts. Learn about: The true experiences of women from all classes, including women who made history The dos and don’ts in the bedroom Sexy foods and how to have them All you need to know for your wedding night, and well as insider medical advice How to get pregnant (and how not to), and more “Quite compelling and hilariously funny. I have been chuckling out loud and my husband says he thinks he ought to read it if it’s such a tonic. God forbid!” —Susanna Newstead, author of the Savernake Novels

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413777340

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Chaucer's Knight by Terry Jones Pdf

Fourth edition of Terry Jones's groundbreaking study, featuring new material and research Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and controversial books ever to hit the world of Chaucer scholarship. Jones questions the accepted view of the Knight as a paragon of Christian chivalry, and argues that he is in fact no more than a professional mercenary who has spent his life in the service of petty despots and tyrants around the world. This edition includes astonishing new evidence from Jones, who argues that the character of the Knight was actually based on Sir John Hawkwood (d.1394), a marauding English freebooter and mercenary who pillaged his way across northern Italy during the 14th century, running protection rackets on the Italian Dukes and creating a vast fortune in the process.

Author : R. Yeager,T. Takamiya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137075055

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The Medieval Python by R. Yeager,T. Takamiya Pdf

This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature comedy (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) as well as educational television series for BBC, the History Channel, etc. (e.g., Medieval Lives) - and in his published scholarship (e.g., Chaucer's Knight, in original and revised editions, Who Murdered Chaucer?), Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and his broad good humor to challenge, enlighten and reform. No one working today in either Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Jones' purposive, provocative views. Jones, perhaps more than any other medievalist, can be said to be an integral part of what Palgrave deems the "common dialogue."

Author : Douglas McCall
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786478118

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Monty Python by Douglas McCall Pdf

A chronological listing of the creative output and other antics of the members of the British comedy group Monty Python, both as a group and individually. Coverage spans between 1969 (the year Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted) and 2012. Entries include television programs, films, stage shows, books, records and interviews. Back matter features an appendix of John Cleese's hilarious business-training films; an index of Monty Python's sketches and songs; an index of Eric Idle's sketches and songs; as well as a general index and selected bibliography.

Author : Paul N. Reinsch,B. Lynn Whitfield,Robert G. Weiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319513850

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Python beyond Python by Paul N. Reinsch,B. Lynn Whitfield,Robert G. Weiner Pdf

This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of artistic realms beyond the confines of the comedy troupe. Their work as individuals, before and after coming together as Monty Python, demonstrates a restless curiosity about culture that embraces absurdity but seldom becomes cynical. Python members collectively and individually create unique approaches to theatre, film, video games, comic books, business training videos and more. Python Beyond Python increases our understanding of this often neglected work and the meanings of Monty Python.

Author : Alan Ereira,Terry Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409070429

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Terry Jones' Barbarians by Alan Ereira,Terry Jones Pdf

Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire. This original and fascinating study does away with the propaganda and opens our eyes to who really established the civilized world. Delving deep into history, Terry Jones and Alan Ereira uncover the impressive cultural and technological achievements of the Celts, Goths, Persians and Vandals. In this paperback edition, Terry and Alan travel through 700 years of history on three continents, bringing wit, irreverence, passion and scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the Roman Empire and the creation of the modern world.

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012152636

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Chaucer's Knight by Terry Jones Pdf

Author : Terry Jones,Robert Yeager,Alan Fletcher,Juliette Dor,Terry Dolan
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0312335881

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Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones,Robert Yeager,Alan Fletcher,Juliette Dor,Terry Dolan Pdf

In this spectacular work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom, Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet, rhetorician and scholar: the preeminent intellectual of his time. And yet nothing is known of his death. In 1400 his name simply disappears from the record. We don't know how he died, where or when; there is no official confirmation of his death and no chronicle mentions it; no notice of his funeral or burial. He left no will and there's nothing to tell us what happened to his estate. He didn't even leave any manuscripts. How could this be? What if he was murdered? Terry Jones' hypothesis is the introduction to a reading of Chaucer's writings as evidence that might be held against him, interwoven with a portrait of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, its politics and its personalities.

Author : Terry Jones,Alan Ereira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 0563370076

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Crusades by Terry Jones,Alan Ereira Pdf

900 years ago, Christian Europe was seized by a fever that changed the world forever. Inspired by a Pope who offered rewards on earth and a certain place in Paradise thereafter, tens of thousands of men, women and children - knights and peasants, rich and poor, old and young - set out for the Holy Land to recapture the Holy City Jerusalem and save their fellow Christians from persecution by the Infidel.

Author : Terry Jones,Alan Ereira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409070433

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Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones,Alan Ereira Pdf

Author : Richard Topping
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0753513153

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Monty Python by Richard Topping Pdf

An appreciation of Monty Python offers an episode guide to the TV shows, summaries of the Python films, biographies of the Python members, and listings of film, book, audio recording, stage, and television endeavors.

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Pavilion Children's
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781843652625

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The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones Pdf

The fantastically brilliant and amazingly adventurous saga of Erik the Viking returns in this special 30th anniversary edition. As Erk and the crew of The Golden Dragon set off in search of adventure, little do they know that their courage, skill, strength and stamina will all be tested to the extremes... Includes an exclusive foreword from Terry Jones and newly coloured illustrations from Michael Foreman.