The (True?) Story of Eustace the Monk
Title | The (True?) Story of Eustace the Monk PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Bedford |
Publisher | Sacristy Press |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2012-11-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1908381108 |
This engaging book for younger readers explores the life of a real historical figure in the medieval period and provides a fascinating and colourful way of introducting children to this period.
Burmese Monk's Tales
Title | Burmese Monk's Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Maung Htin Aung |
Publisher | Pariyatti Publishing |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 2017-04-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1938754409 |
The tales contained in this collection were first told in the dark decade of Burmese history (1876–85) during the coming event of the British conquest. The stories combine exotic background with strong details that offer the Western reader both a picture of Burma in the nineteenth century and an understanding of the basic good sense, gaiety, and gentleness of the Burmese people and the Buddhist clergy. The characters that appear in the book illustrate timeless truths about human nature, which today's reader can apply to existing people and situations. For the first time since the eleventh century the future of Burmese Buddhism became uncertain, and there was widespread fear, both in Upper Burma still under a Burmese king and in Lower Burma already under British rule, that the final fall of the Burmese kingdom would result in the total extinction of both the national religion and the Burmese way of life. Told with the purpose of allaying this anxiety and fear, these tales give a full and faithful résumé and appraisal of the position of Burmese Buddhism on the eve of the British conquest of 1886.
Tales of a Magic Monastery
Title | Tales of a Magic Monastery PDF eBook |
Author | Theophane (the Monk.) |
Publisher | Crossroad Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780824500856 |
Here, the charming, mature stories from the internationallly beloved monk are accompanied by original art. Like the parables of Jesus, these tales repeatedly unfold new levels of meaning if we are willing to sit with them.
The Seeker and the Monk
Title | The Seeker and the Monk PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Sophfronia |
Publisher | Broadleaf Books |
Total Pages | 217 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1506464963 |
What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it? By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.
Tales of the Monks
Title | Tales of the Monks PDF eBook |
Author | Manuel Komroff |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
ISBN |
Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale
Title | Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Goodall |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 540 |
Release | 2009-02-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442691905 |
Of all the stories that comprise The Canterbury Tales, certain ones have attracted more attention than others in terms of literary scholarship and canonization. The Monk's Tale, for instance, was popular in the decades after Chaucer's death, but has since suffered critical neglect, particularly in the twentieth century. The opposite has occurred with the Nun's Priest's Tale, which has long been one of the most popular and widely discussed of the tales, cited by some critics as the most essentially 'Chaucerian' of them all. This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. A detailed introduction summarizes all extant writings on the two tales and their relationship to each other, giving a sense of the complexity of Chaucer's seminal work and the unique function of its component stories. By dealing with these two tales in particular, this bibliography suggests the complicated critical reception and history of The Canterbury Tales.
Merry Tales of the Monks
Title | Merry Tales of the Monks PDF eBook |
Author | Stephalius (pseud.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | |
ISBN |