UK Session 1 - April 2016 by STOSKIENE RITA

Canterbury Tales Karolina

2016-04-05 11:45:17 UTC

It The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
Each pilgrim told two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. I really liked the story about the 3 friends that were looking to find death and in the end found it on their own by killing each other over who would get the money they found
Karolina

Rita - storytelling

rita100 — 2016-04-05 18:58:36 UTC

Try this:
1. Listen to the narrative without watching the video. What images do you see in your head? What feelings do they evoke? Try to remember these images.
2. Now watch the video. How the video images differ from your images? Do you still have the same feeling about the story? Why?
3. Here is the great article of the importance of storytelling: https://www.rcowen.com/PDFs/CTS%20Ch%201%20for%20website.pdf

Picturetrail - Rita

2016-04-05 19:57:13 UTC

BAYRAM ALKIŞ

2016-04-06 07:50:59 UTC

CANTERBURY TALES 
Read stories to children is a distinct pleasure and a world apart . The children with the story develops imagination. They may consider more specific and wide . Especially large family of children to read the stories, tales told by a separate world for them. never forget.
Canterbury tales as the first literary work written in English is also very important.When stories are stories of love of reading in society.

Maria Metsiou / The Lonely King's Tale

2016-04-07 18:31:33 UTC

Anastasia Legkou / Jason & Elizabeth's Tale

2016-04-07 21:51:24 UTC

Mihaela

2016-09-26 19:56:28 UTC

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, told by different pilgrims on their way to Thomas Becket’s tomb during the Middle Ages. The stories range from high style Romance pieces to crude, bawdy pieces intended to insult and entertain.

Chaucer's long poem follows the journey of a group of pilgrims, 31 including Chaucer himself, from the Tabard Inn in Southwark to St Thomas à Becket's shrine at Canterbury Cathedral. The host at the inn suggests each pilgrim tell two tales on the way out and two on the way home to help while away their time on the road. The best storyteller is to be rewarded with a free supper on their return.

This literary device gives Chaucer the opportunity to paint a series of vivid word portraits of a cross-section of his society, from a knight and prioress, to a carpenter and cook; a much-married wife of Bath, to a bawdy miller - an occupation regarded in Chaucer's day as shifty and dishonest.

Suzana

2016-09-26 20:33:35 UTC

The Cathedral of Curtea de Argeș (early 16th century) is a Romanian Orthodox cathedral in Curtea de Argeș, Romania. It is located on the grounds of the Curtea de Argeș Monastery, and is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
The cathedral is faced with pale grey limestone, which was easily chiselled then hardened on exposure. The interior is of brick, plastered and decorated with frescoes. Nearby on the grounds stands a large Moorish style royal palace
The building resembles a very large and elaborate mausoleum, and was built in the Byzantine style, with Moorish arabesques. The cathedral is upon a raised platform, 7 ft (2.1 m) above the surrounding grade, and encircled by a stone balustrade. In shape the structure is oblong, with a many-sided annex at the back. A dome rises in the center, fronted by two smaller twisting and leaning cupolas, while a secondary dome, broader and loftier than the central one, springs from the annex. Each summit is crowned by an inverted pear-shaped stone, bearing a triple cross, emblematic of the Trinity.

The windows are mere slits; those of the tambours (the cylinders on which the cupolas rest) are curved and slant at an angle of 70 degrees, as though the tambours were leaning to one side.
Facing the main entrance is a small open shrine, consisting of a cornice and dome upheld by four pillars.

Manole legend
A traditional legend tells of Radu Negru employing a Meşterul Manole or Manoli as architect. With Manole being unable to finish the walls, the prince threatened him and his assistants with death. At last Manole suggested that they should follow the ancient custom of placing a living woman into the foundations; and that she who first appeared on the following morning should be the victim. The other masons warned their families, and Manole was forced to sacrifice his own wife. Thus the cathedral was built.
When Manole and his masons told the prince that they could always build an even greater building, Radu Negru had them stranded on the roof so that they could not build something to match it. They fashioned wooden wings and tried to fly off the roof, but, one by one, they all fell to the ground. A spring of clear water, named after Manole, is said to mark the spot where he fell.
So, there is a strong connection between the tangible culture, the monastery, and the intangible culture, the traditional legend.