Bøger af Thomas E Vesce

Guillaume de St. Paier was a monk in the Abbey of Mont St. Michel between 1154 and 1186. He wrote the story about 1160 by using oral sources as well as various documents found in the Bishop of Avranches' monastery library. It recounts how Mont St. Michel was founded and about how the miracles of Saint Michael were witnessed there. The story here is one of two copies remaining, dated 1340, and was written down in Palestine. The work has never been completely translated into English before.

In searching through various studies on the opera, one invariably comes upon an obligatory reference to the legendary 1897 work, The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of every Work in the Modern Repertory by R. A. Streatfeild, and an introduction by J. A. Fuller-Maitland, published in London by John C. Nimmo and in Philadelphia by J. B. Lippincott Company.In 1998, while preparing to teach a Pace University-Westchester course on the opera, I was lucky enough to find a copy of the book, I offered my students excerpts - without changing the text or opinions of the original source - after extensively up-dating its antiquated grammatical usage and diction. The present computer-assisted modernized edition is presented here with several public domain graphic embellishments that perhaps add more pleasure in reading this version of Streatfeild's The Opera, with references devoted solely to the Italian history of the genre.

This work aims to offer three distinct, yet interrelated, glimpses into the life, thought, and custom of medieval times, as experienced in northern French communities between the early thirteenth to the middle of the fourteenth centuries.The texts presented here were not necessarily written for the enjoyment of the leisure class but were probably used as guidance for the proper upbringing of young adults. Some of those, might have been interested in a clerical career, while others were probably more inclined toward marriage. Also offered here are an instructional piece or two for those who, because of their high-class privilege, could afford to delay planning the course of their life and instead chose recklessly to become enmeshed in more mundane pursuits. (How quintessentially modern!)

This study is a review of the treatment accorded feudal and courtly values in the Siège de Barbastre and the Beuvon de Conmarchis, two French epic poems from the Geste de Monglane. Both poems tell the same story of the Christian defense of the Spanish town of Barbastro against the Saracens. As some one hundred and fifty years separate the two versions of the battle, the treatment of feudal material in the poems is not identical but reflects the change in literary tastes which took place between 1150 and 1300 when the poems are generally held to have been written down. The town of Barbastro (

Perhaps the most famous among contemporary cantastorie - master singers of the tales of the noble deeds of Charlemagne and King Arthur - was the Florentine, Antonio Pucci (1330-1388). A resident of the Santa Croce district, Pucci was a tradesman who worked, as a foundry man and bell maker, like his father before him, for the Florentine Commune until about 1369. In his spare time, he offered his views about the calamities that beset Florence (the flood of '33; the famine of '46; and the plague of '48) in various literary forms: laude, satires, rhymed chronicles, serventesi, and cantari. Unlike Dante, whose great works were heard and read by the elites of his day, Pucci regaled any who would listen to his artful recitations on the streets of Florence, particularly in one very close to the Alighieri house that still may be visited today.

This book starts with the beginning of the United States school year that children of immigrants attend. In this way, it helps the immigrant family learn about how American society celebrates seasonal changes with sports and other activities, which not only assists in the acquisition of new and necessary English vocabulary but also in the communal acculturation of each member of the family. At the end of each month's description, the section of "Cultural Exhibits" presents prose and poetry selections, primarily from American literature, which highlight the activities of each month, from September to Summer Time, that illustrate American sentiment and provides further understanding of the fundamental rhytms of American society.