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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2016The annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
by I. Robinson
This is a translation of the eleventh-century Latin Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, with detailed commentary and introduction. No translation has hitherto been published in English, despite the fact that it is one of the best known of all the narrative sources of the Middle Ages, constantly mentioned in the English secondary literature. Lampert produced the most detailed account of the events of 1056-77 (the minority of Henry IV of Germany and the first decade of his personal rule), a period of crisis and rebellion culminating in the conflict between the king and Pope Gregory VII. He is widely regarded as 'the unrivalled master among medieval historians' and 'a superb story-teller', noted for his vivid characterisation and narrative. An English translation of this work is of the greatest value to teachers and students of medieval history and also of interest to the general reader of European literature.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A ZEN MONK
by Taisen Deshimaru
A story of bravery and false starts, Autobiography of a Zen Monk candidly recounts the author’s development from a highly mischievous Japanese boy into a world-renowned Sensei (Teacher) of Zen. While countless memoirs exist written by Zen students and teachers, few are as engaging and as tantalizing as Taisen Deshimaru’s. Looking back at his early life, growing up in Japan, from the viewpoint of his status as a Zen teacher in Paris, the author reflects on his earliest misadventures—from defacing a valuable painting of Bodhidharma as a child, to turning the “Zen stick” on a young monk during a retreat. Adventures abound with stories about alcohol and women, during his student years, and his activities during World War II in working for the arms industry in Malaysia, where he was sympathetic to the underground freedom movement. This first English-language translation of Taisen Deshimaru’s autobiography will be prized for its clear and honest documentation of this great master’s life. Many people all over the world have been influenced by Deshimaru’s Zen teachings, especially his book on Zen and the martial arts. This memoir fills an important gap in our knowledge of his teacher, Kodo Sawaki’s influence on the world of Zen. The story of how Deshimaru met Sawaki as a boy, even slept in the same room with him, and later received monastic ordination is the story of a lifelong friendship of two extraordinary characters in the history of modern Zen. Deshimaru’s influence extends beyond Zen practitioners, though, especially in those interested in the martial arts, as he touches on his martial arts experience as a young man and offers a look into the master’s early training. Additional interest extends to historians who recount the supposed “scandals” of Zen masters’ participation in the war effort. Although Deshimaru’s viewpoint is decidedly subjective, he was intimately acquainted with priests and generals alike, and approaches the difficult subject with a refreshing lack of judgmental disdain which counterbalances many other more lopsided works. Translator, Richard Collins, a longtime Zen practitioner, and currently the Abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple, is a literature scholar and author of several books including No Fear Zen, Hohm Press, 2014. His knowledge of the subject matter and his finesse with language combine to make this book a delightful read for those who appreciate wellwritten memoir.
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Three Monks
One Story a Week
by Chen Jiafei
The story begins with a monk dutifully bringing water from a stream to his temple at the top of a mountain. A tall monk arrives, and when water is needed, he volunteers to fetch water to the delight of the first monk who doesn’t need to do anything. At the next water run, the second monk calls on the first to help. Reluctantly, he does, but the two bicker over how to balance the water bucket on the yoke given their height difference. A third, portly monk arrives at the temple. He selfishly guzzles all the water, but when the water is all gone, nobody is willing to head down the mountain to get water. Each would rather suffer than to do something that would benefit everybody. In the end, a murine arsonist creates a need for water so great that three petty monks are forced to work together.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2015The annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2015
The annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Hariulf’s History of St Riquier
by Kathleen Thompson
A new and accessible translation of Hariulf's History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century. It covers the ascetic life of the founding saint and the development of the community under the Carolingians in the late eighth and ninth centuries. There were setbacks when the house was sacked by the Vikings and the founder's relics were stolen for political ends, but it recovered in the tenth and eleventh centuries and developed the links with both the Norman and English courts that enable Hariulf to make interesting observations about the Norman Conquest of England. Hariulf's description of the monastic site with its three churches and the liturgical arrangements practised there, as well as the relics, treasures, books and endowments of a great monastic foundation, make his history an important source for monastic history.
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SCRIBE :The Story of the Only Female Pope
by Hugo N. Gerstl
The monastery at Siani was famous throughout the academic world for its library. The monks of medieval days routinely obtained ancient, crumbling manuscripts and recopied them. Among them, hidden in a wall in the cellar, the following parchment was found and faithfully recopied in the practiced hand of the Sianian monks several centuries after its original writing. Hugo N. Gerstl, nationally famous American trial lawyer, world traveler and author of the bestselling historical novels: AGAINST ALL ODDS: The Magnificent Trio That Built Israel's Air Force; SCRIBE: The Only Female Pope; AMAZING GRACE: The Outstanding Tale of Grace O'Malley, The Notorious Pirate Woman; LEGACY: A Turkish Saga; and the gripping, breath-holding thrillers ASSASSIN & MISFIRE, which so far have been translated into Portuguese, Czech, and Turkish. as well as THE POLITICS OF HATE – A Piercing Insight into American Politics. Hugo Gerstl lives in Carmel, California with his wife Lorraine, a writer and teacher. Together they have raised five children, now grown. Published By Pangæa Publishing Group 560 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Emotional monasticism
Affective piety in the eleventh-century monastery of John of Fécamp
by Lauren Mancia
Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women. Emotional monasticism challenges this view. The first study of affective piety in an eleventh-century monastic context, it traces the early history of affective devotion through the life and works of the earliest known writer of emotional prayers, John of Fécamp, abbot of the Norman monastery of Fécamp from 1028-78. Exposing the early medieval monastic roots of later medieval affective piety, the book casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christianity.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalAugust 2002The Templars
by Barber, Bate
The Templars were members of a monastic order established in 1099 after the success of the First Crusade. Enjoying the support of both the Church and the laity and vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, these 'fighting monks' were the vital defenders o. A unique collection of translated sources documenting the origins of the Order and the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution. Offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported, and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. Examines the many and varied facets of the Order's activities during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. There is no other book of translated sources devoted in its entirety to the Templars.
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September 2020Das Think Like a Monk-Prinzip
Finde innere Ruhe und Kraft für ein erfülltes und sinnvolles Leben
by Shetty, Jay
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June 1989Antigone
by Sophokles, Friedrich Hölderlin, Martin Walser, Edgar Selge
Die Antigone des Sophokles, eines der bedeutendsten und wichtigsten Dramen der Weltliteratur, hat im Laufe seiner Wirkungsgeschichte viele Übersetzer, Nachdichter und Dramatiker beschäftigt und zum eigenen Umgang mit dem großen Thema von Liebe und Hass, Recht und Unrecht angeregt. Die mit Gewissheit poetischste, musikalischste und sprachmächtigste Übertragung des griechischen Textes ins Deutsche haben wir Friedrich Hölderlin zu verdanken, dessen Antigone nun Martin Walser und Edgar Selge (Autor der eine, Schauspieler der andere) bearbeitet und für das Theater der Gegenwart eingerichtet haben. Entstanden ist dabei ein Text, der sich sehr wohl dem Ton und dem Rhythmus Hölderlins verpflichtet weiß, der aber den Konflikt Antigones mit Kreon, ihrem Onkel, dem König von Theben, schärfer und kontrastreicher herausarbeitet und der von der ersten Szene an für ein entschiedeneres Tempo und damit für mehr Spannung und Intensität sorgt. Martin Walsers und Edgar Selges Bearbeitung, die am 20. Juni 1989 bei den Bad Hersfelder Festspielen ihre Premiere auf der Bühne hatte, erleichtert dem heutigen Leser und Zuschauer den Zugang zu einem Werk das, rund 2400 Jahre alt, am Anfang der europäischen Dramenliteratur steht und dennoch zeitlos gültig geblieben ist.
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November 2020Three Amulets
by Wang Yimei, Woo Minhye
Once upon a time, there was a small temple in which lived an old monk and a little monk. Behind the small temple was a forest full of chestnut trees, but also of terrible goblin. Not being persuaded, the little monk insisted on going into the forest to collect chestnuts. The old monk gave the little monk three amulets. Can these three amulets help the little monk in the dangerous forest?
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The Painting Series of Chinese Folk Tales: Three Monks
by The Editorial Board
This series contains 31 titles of picture books. It is a collection of traditional Chinese classic tales, including fables, myths, idioms and folk legends. It’s playful and readable with attractive illustrations and concise text.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany
by Alison I. Beach, Shannong Li, Samuel Sutherland
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2022Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany
by Alison I. Beach, Shannon M. T. Li, Samuel Sutherland
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November 1997alles was Brecht ist ...
Fakten - Kommentare - Meinungen - Bilder. Begleitbuch zu den gleichnamigen Sendereihen von 3sat und S2 Kultur
by Werner Hecht
Texte von Bertolt Brecht Originalbeiträge von Heinz Adameck, Wolfgang Gersch, Egon Monk und Dieter Wöhrle Zeitgenössische und aktuelle Kritiken Zahlreiche Abbildungen Eine Radiographie. Bertolt Brecht im deutschsprachigen Hörspiel Eine Videographie. Bertolt Brecht in Film und Fernsehen
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FictionTranscendence
by Shi Shuqing
This novel tells two stories of an ancient Chinese monk and a modern young lady. With elegant narration, the author discusses love, lust, and Buddhism. Crossing the time of 1500 years, the fate of protagonists interweaved in Nanjing, the city of Buddhism.
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2008A Collection of Comic Books of Journey to the West
by Mutiple Anthors
It mainly describes the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Shaseng, and the White Dragon Horse who protected Tang Monk to go to the west for Buddhist scriptures during the Taizong Emperor's reign of the Tang Dynasty. During this journey, they conquered difficulties one after another, fought with monsters and devils all the way to the West to get the true scriptures.
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August 2016Journey to the West（Digital Edition)
by Wu Cheng En
Journey to the West is a Chinese classic fantastic novel. It mainly describes a long journey to the Western Heaven to fetch the Buddhist sutras. The main characters of this novel are a monk, named Xuanzang, and his four disciples, named Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing and Yulong Santaizi. Throughout the journey, the four brave disciples have to protect their master from various monsters and calamities. After encountering eighty-one disasters, they finally reaches their destination. The most definitive version of this novel was written by Wu Chengen in his old age and published in 1592.
