La 25 decembrie 1066, catedrala Westminster Abbey a găzduit ceremonia de încoronare a ducelui William de Normandia ca rege al Angliei. în ciuda victoriei repurtate la Hastings, a capitulării Londrei şi Winchester-ului, poziţia lui William se putea defini ca fiind încă precară. Alţi cinci ani aveau să treacă pentru ca noul rege să iie încrezător în caracterul complet al cuceririi. Revolte îndreptate împotriva stăpânirii normande s-au desfăşurat anual în intervalul 1067-1070: în Kent, în sud-vest, în mlaştinile galeze, în ţinutul Fenland şi în nord. Normanzii au fost nevoiţi să trăiască asemenea unei armate de ocupaţie, locuind, hrănindu-se şi adăpostindu-se laolaltă în interiorul unităţilor operative. De asemenea, au fost nevoiţi să-şi construiască...

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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Middle English: The Wyves Tale of Bathe) and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale—perhaps the one told by the Shipman—she received her present tale as her significance increased. She calls herself both Alyson and...

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Dovezile arheologice indică faptul că războinicii de origine germanică se aflau pe teritoriul Britaniei încă cu câţiva ani înainte de 410. Printre acestea, mormintele datând din perioada târzie a Imperiului Roman descoperite de-a lungul văii inferioare a Tamisei, de la Oxfordshire şi până pe coasta Essex-ului, atestă faptul că era vorba de mercenari de origine francă şi saxonă din armata romană. Dacă astfel de trupe se aflau staţionate în Britania, tot aşa cum se aflau în Galia, invadatorii de la mijlocul secolului al V-lea n-au făcut decât să urmeze generaţiile cu care ele se înrudeau. S-a vorbit nu o dată despre aceşti mercenari găzduiţi care s-au stabilit pe teritoriul britanic în jurul anului 400 pentru a supraveghea împrejurimile Londrei....

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Norwegian pronouns include personal pronouns (refer to the persons speaking, the persons spoken to, or the persons or things spoken about), indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns (connect parts of sentences) and reciprocal or reflexive pronouns (in which the object of a verb is being acted on by verb's subject).  Norwegian personal pronouns...

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The Reeve's Tale" is the third story told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The reeve, named Oswald in the text, is the manager of a large estate who reaped incredible profits for his master and himself. He is described in the Tales as skinny and bad-tempered. The Reeve had once been a carpenter, a profession mocked in the previous Miller's Tale. Oswald responds with a tale that mocks the Miller's profession. ...

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PROLOGUE Words between the Host and the Miller Now when the worthy Knight his tale had told, In all the group there wasn't young or old 3110 Who didn't say it was a noble story, One well to be remembered for its glory (The gentlefolk believed this all the more). "As I may walk," our Host then laughed and swore, "This goes all right, the bag's been opened well. 3115 Let's see who's next now with a tale to tell, For truly has the game been well begun. So tell us now, Sir Monk, if you know one Of any kind to match the Knight's good tale." The Miller, so completely drunk and pale 3120 That on his horse he insecurely sat, Unwilling to remove his hood or hat, Would not await his turn with courtesy But...

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Phonetics is so understandable with A COURSE IN PHONETICS and its CD! This best-selling text gets undergraduates painlessly into the subdiscipline of phonetics. Attuning your ear and practicing speech sounds is easy with the CD-ROM; over 4,000 audio files include many versions of English and almost 100 other languages. The CD also contains material for every chapter--recordings of words in the tables and performance exercises--and maps with links to sounds of the languages spoken in various areas of the worl...

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    In the poem, Sir Orfeo, king of Thrace, loses his wife Heurodis (i.e. Eurydice) to the fairy king, who steals her away from under an ympe-tre (a tree propagated by grafting), probably an apple or cherry tree. Heurodis had visited the orchard the day before, accompanied by two maidens, to sleep beneath the shade of its branches, but when she had awoken from her midday nap, she was so distressed that they had to call for the help of knights to restrain her. In her sleep, she had been visited by the king of the Otherworld, she claimed, who was intent upon taking her to his underworld kingdom. Now, a day later, she is in the orchard again, as the king of the Otherworld has instructed her to be, and despite...

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"It is to be hoped that the purpose of this book is sufficiently explained in the text and the preface need therefore be occupied with nothing but thanks where thanks, so far as I can recall, are due. But I cannot promise to remember all my debts, and I am well aware, like the philosopher, that 'if I had succeeded in owing more, I might then perhaps have gained more of a claim to be original'. Of unambiguous debts my first is naturally to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press and to the skilled and patient anonymities who serve  them;  then  to  Dom  André  Wilmart,  O.S.B.,  for  careful criticisms of the first two chapters; to Professor C. C. J. Webb for his  helpful  interest  in...

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AUDIO EXERCISES FOR THE BOOK THAT YOU CAN FIND HERE CD 1 CD 2 ...

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Expediţiile întreprinse de generalul roman lulius Caesar pe teritoriul Britaniei în anii 55-54 î.Hr. constituie dovada deciziei Romei de a-şi extinde graniţele Imperiului cu o nouă cucerire. Pentru Roma, întinderea stăpânirii sale nu era altceva decât materializarea misiunii divine ce-i revenea şi care se cuvenea îndeplinită pe măsură. Cucerirea Britaniei de către romani se va dovedi a 11 unul din punctele de răscruce ale istoriei acestui teritoriu.   Triburile cu care romanii au venit în contact în Britania prezentau asemănări cu cele din Galia, deşi păreau să împărtăşească aceeaşi versiune britanică a limbii celte, precum şi o cultură în mare parte similară.      Prima invazie a teritoriului britanic de...

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Every time we write or speak, we are faced with a large array of choices: not only choices of what to say but of how to say it. The vocabulary and grammar that we use to communicate are influenced by a number of factors, such as the reason for the communication, the setting, the people we are addressing, and whether we are speaking or writing. Taken together, these choices give rise to systematic patterns of choice in the use of English grammar. Traditionally, such patterns have not been included as part of grammar. Most grammars have focused on structure, describing the form and (sometimes) meaning of grammatical constructions out of context. They have not described how forms and meanings are actually used in spoken and written discourse....

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Ne intalnim la ora 17 SAU Ne intalnim la orele 17? Bem un pahar de lapte SAU Bem un pahar cu lapte?Eu continui cursa SAU Eu continuu cursa? Cartea care o citesc acum este excelenta SAU Cartea pe care o citesc acum este excelenta? Trebuie luate masuri urgente SAU Trebuiesc luate masuri urgente? Sunt numai cateva dintre ezitarile firesti ale multor vorbitori de astazi, mai ales in conditiile aparitiei unor noi tratate care reglementeaza normele ortografice, aducand schimbari inca insuficient cunoscute. 77 de raspunsuri argumentate simplu si clar sunt puse, asadar, la dispozitia oricarui cititor interesat de corectitudinea propriei exprimari si de felul cum arata limba romana!  ...

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Everyman is late-15th-century English morality play. Called by Death, Everyman can persuade none of his friends - Beauty, Kindred, Worldly Goods - to go with him, except Good Deeds.                                            CharactersEveryman-------------------------Strength God: Adonai----------------------Discretion Death-----------------------------Five-Wits Messenger------------------------Beauty Fellowship------------------------Knowledge Cousin----------------------------Confession Kindred---------------------------Angel Goods-----------------------------Doctor Good-DeedsThe...

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The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queeneis notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza and is one of the longest poems in the English language. It is an allegorical work, written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. In a completely allegorical context, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues. In Spenser's "A Letter of the Authors," he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in allegorical devises," and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to “fashion a gentleman...

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