Terry Jones Medieval Lives

Author : Alan Ereira
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140907045X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terry Jones' Medieval Lives written by Alan Ereira and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780413777355
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Murdered Chaucer? written by Terry Jones and published by Politicos Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : R. Yeager
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137075058
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Python written by R. Yeager and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alan Ereira
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409070425
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terry Jones' Barbarians written by Alan Ereira and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Douglas McCall
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647811X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monty Python written by Douglas McCall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Terry Jones
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Knight written by Terry Jones and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul N. Reinsch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319513850
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Python beyond Python written by Paul N. Reinsch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Terry Jones
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312335885
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Murdered Chaucer? written by Terry Jones and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563370079
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusades written by Terry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409070436
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terry Jones' Barbarians written by Terry Jones and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: