The summoner of the Medieval Church calls people before the church for their spiritual crimes. Chaucer's summoner is nasty from physical to inner appearance and completely disrespects the title of his job. ... The Summoner is a drunk and is known to be extremely disrespectful when intoxicated. ... The Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner all play the roles of corrupt church officials. ... In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer is pointing that out. ...

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The Canterbury Tales, also expresses some similar values in its text. ... On the other hand , The Canterbury Tales was a frame story. ... The Canterbury Tales characters though, were extremely complex. ... In comparison to this style, The Canterbury Tales were in the Chaucer style. ... When The Canterbury Tales was finally written the language was changed again. ...

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There are several examples in Chaucer's famed Canterbury Tales. ... The tale says his favorite pastime is hunting, whereas a monk should! ... The privilege of the forum states that a cleric cannot be summoned before a lay court to be tried before a lay judge (Strayer Vol 3 445). ...

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There are several examples in Chaucer's famed Canterbury Tales. ... The tale says his favorite pastime is hunting, whereas a monk should spend his days in prayer and labor. ... The privilege of the forum states that a cleric cannot be summoned before a lay court to be tried before a lay judge (Strayer Vol 3 445). ...

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For example; Everyman begins with the words, "Here beginneth a treatise how the high Father of Heaven/ sendeth Death to summon every creature to come and/ give account of their lives in this world, and is in manner/ of a moral play.""(Everyman intro) "And ends with a speech by the Doctor enclosing the moral of the tale by restating points the audience should take heed to: "Doctor: This moral men may have in mind.Ye hearers, take it of worth, old and young,/And forsake Pride, for he deceiveth you in the end;/ And remember Beauty, Five Wits, Strength, and Discretion,/ They all at the last...

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The Periclean Building Program "There was one measure above all which at once gave the greatest pleasure to the Athenians, adorned their city and created amazement among the rest of mankind, and which is today the sole testimony that the tales of the ancient power and glory of Greece are no mere fables." ... Pericles summoned a conference of all Greek states to consider the questions of rebuilding the Greek temples destroyed by the Persians. ...

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Soon after Mozart was summoned to Vienna by Archbishop Colloredo. ... Yes it is strange that an anonymous person summoned Mozart to create "The Requiem" at the exact same time that Mozart had fallen ill but until this day there is no evidence that concludes that he was a victim of murder. ... And so, the curtain falls on the tale of the life of the great Wolfgang Amadeus, and though we will never see another quite like him, his marvelous compositions will live on through the years. ...

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Ever since, there has been an almost unceasing stream of pilgrims to his shrine (perhaps popularized further by Chaucer"'"s Canterbury Tales, which describe such pilgrims). ... The tension over this issue came to a climax on October 13, 1164, when the Archbishop was summoned to court to be tried for treason. ...

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In an early moment of tension, Hepzibah is frightened by the shop bell which she perceives to be "betwitched", becoming fearful that she has "summoned up an evil spirit" (49)-yet we quickly discover that it is simply a sweet little urchin boy wanting to buy gingerbread. ... We are the unreliable narrators of our individual tales, surrounded by circumstances that cannot be fully apprehended, and are widely prone to misinterpret what little evidence we are given....

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Argus summoned him to his side and Hermes attempted to lull Argus to sleep by droning incessantly in the most monotonous and drowsily as he can. ... This tale tells of Polyphemus, a Cyclops who dwelt in a cave near the ocean. ...

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The summoning of an expedition to the aid of the Byzantine empire had probably been in his mind for several years and it had been aired at a council held at Piacenza in March which had heard an appeal from the Byzantine (Greek) emperor Alexius for aid against the Turks, who for over two decades had been sweeping through Asia Minor. ... The city guard sallied out and drove away the Crusaders, but the Franks returned to Civetot laden with booty and regaling everyone with tales of their great "victory." ...

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Liberty is a word that produces a strong feeling of hope and touches the inner soul of man. Throughout the course of time, individuals and nations oppressed by the tyrannical government have cried out of for liberty and have sought for the comfort of living a free life. Revolution and wars have of...

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The Epic of Gilgamesh, the great tale of a Mesopotamian hero-king written in the Akkadian language during the first millennium BC, is full of dream accounts, many replete with divine omens of danger or victory; in one a nightmare creature leads the hero Enkidu to the "Land of Dust" where the souls of the dead live in perpetual darkness (Fontana). ... The Babylonians revered the Jews as dream interpreters, and in the sixth century BC they summoned the Israelite prophet Daniel to interpret one of King Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, whereupon he correctly predicted the king's imminent seve...

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It is not always a physical strength – although many heroes seem to summon such strength when events necessitate it – but it is frequently endurance, courageous persistence, and strength of mind, that when allied even with whatever limited physical strength exists, can appear almost superhuman. ... It is a hero's tale of "long golden beaches high capes great brown mountains [and] white peaks of islands rising from the sea" (27). ...

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