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1. Summary “A Tale of a White Hood” “The Story” immediately precedes the message of Dmitry from Rome to Archbishop Gennady, in which he reports that the Greek original of the story about the white klobuk was not preserved and he could hardly find only the Latin translation of this work. His own translation of this monument into Russian Dmitry and applies to […]...
2. English Society XIV-XV centuries In English society, there have been some changes. There was an increasing interest in trade, especially overseas, so shipbuilding flourished. Most of the nobles no longer considered entrepreneurship something shameful, they learned how to manage the economy in a new way and increasingly became like the bourgeoisie of cities. But there were also “old” noblemen […]...
3. In the world of fairy tales In the past, legends, songs, funny little genres and fairy tales were made and honed by oral traditions. With the advent of writing, they were literally reworked. Fairy tales were created not only for the sake of entertainment of listeners, but also for the purpose of their education. In fairy tales, the narrators expounded the […]...
4. The Norman Conquest of England In the middle of the XI century. England attracted the attention of the Duchy of Normandy, formed on the territory of France. It was inhabited mainly by the Normans. They during their residence have turned from robbers-pagans to robbers-Christians – knights. In 1066, the Norman Duke William the Conqueror led a 15,000-strong force of Norman […]...
5. Questions and answers to the novel by V. Scott “Ivanhoe” How can you explain that the name of the historical novel is dedicated to the fictional character of knight-crusader Ivanhoe? Walter Scott is considered the ancestor of the historical novel. Historical prose presupposes not only a story about the facts of the past, but also a vivid, lively image of them. In the historical novel, […]...
6. Biography of Anderson Sherwood Anderson Sherwood is an American writer and novelist who was born in Camden, Ohio. After a brief service in the army during the Spanish-American War, he became a successful advertising specialist and then director of the paint factory in Elyria of Ohio. Frustrated by this life, he left his work and his family members and […]...
7. Jeanne d’Arc – the savior of France Although the flame of the popular uprising and managed to pay off, but before the changes for the better it was still far away. The country looked like a disturbed beehive. In it, uprisings of townspeople and peasants flared up, at times more formidable than Jacquerie. The English still defeated in the war. In 1415, […]...
8. Written sources in history 1. How do written historical sources help historians in recreating the past? Among historical sources, the most important are the written ones. After all, only with the advent of writing, people were able to talk in detail about what, where, when and how it happened. Written sources are texts on paper or other materials. Annals, […]...
9. “Winnie the Pooh and all-all-everything” Milna in brief summary Winnie the Pooh – a teddy bear, a great friend of Christopher Robin. With him there are a variety of stories. One day, going out into the clearing, Winnie the Pooh sees a tall oak tree, at the top of which something is buzzing: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh! In vain no one will buzz, and Winnie the Pooh […]...
10. Summary of Ivanhoe Scott Almost one hundred and thirty years have passed since the Norman Duke William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxon armies and captured England at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The English people are going through hard times. King Richard the Lionheart did not return from the last crusade, taken prisoner by the treacherous Duke of Austria. […]...
11. Summary Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all AA Milne Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all Winnie the Pooh is a teddy bear, a great friend of Christopher Robin. With him there are a variety of stories. One day, going out into the clearing, Winnie the Pooh sees a tall oak tree, at the top of which something is buzzing: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh! In vain no […]...
12. Summary “Winnie the Pooh and All Everything” Milna Winnie the Pooh – a teddy bear, a great friend of Christopher Robin. With him there are a variety of stories. One day, going out into the clearing, Winnie the Pooh sees a tall oak tree, at the top of which something is buzzing: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh! In vain no one will buzz, and Winnie the Pooh […]...
13. Summary Rob Roy Walter Scott Rob Roy The novel “Rob Roy” gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations of the early XVIII century. Action develops quickly, more lively than in other novels of Walter Scott. The protagonist, Francis Osbaldiston, was suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in […]...
14. Scott’s “Ivanhoe” in summary Almost one hundred and thirty years have passed since the Norman Duke William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxon armies and captured England at the Battle of Hastings. The English people are going through hard times. King Richard the Lionheart did not return from the last crusade, taken prisoner by the treacherous Duke of Austria. The […]...
15. Summary “Cinnamon Basket” A young trader Wang Wen-yun, frightened of the misfortune predicted to him, bids farewell to his father, his wife and leaves for a hundred days to trade peddling. Wang’s business is going well. On the way to Sizhou, he stops at the inn, where he dreams that he is killed by a robber. Indeed, the […]...
16. Summary Walter Scott Ivanhoe Walter Scott Ivanhoe It’s been almost a hundred and thirty years since the Norman Duke William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxon armies and captured England at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The English people are going through hard times. King Richard the Lionheart did not return from the last crusade, taken prisoner by the treacherous […]...
17. “Rob Roy” Scott in summary The novel “Rob Roy” gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations of the early XVIII century. Action develops quickly, more lively than in other novels of Walter Scott. The protagonist, Francis Osbaldiston, was suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in London, a twenty-year-old young […]...
18. Summary “The reserve of fairy tales” Bulychev Alice taught the Martian language. The weather was beautiful outside. I did not want to do Alice very much. Her father was very busy at that moment, writing a scientific article. Alice’s father was a very serious man, a cosmetic veterinarian, he treated strange animals. Suddenly the videophone rang. A normal goat appeared on the […]...
19. War of the Roses and the White Rose. The Civil War of 1455-1485 Of course, it was not the flowers that caused the terrible bloodshed in England at the end of the Middle Ages. In the Civil War of 1455-1485. The country was involved in two influential noble families – York and Lancaster. The coat of arms of York was adorned with a white rose, the coat of […]...
20. The Board of the First Plantagenets In 1154 the king of England became the great-grandson of William the Conqueror Count of Anjou Henry II Plantagenet. He became the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty. Henry II owned considerable territories in France, which, with its ascent, the patron were annexed to England. It is clear that such a huge state was not easy […]...
21. Summary “Natalia, boyar daughter” of Karamzin The narrator yearns for times when “Russians were Russian”, and Moscow beauties wore sarafans, and did not flaunt themselves in Gallo-Saxon dresses. To resurrect these glorious times, the narrator decided to retell the story he had heard from his grandmother’s grandmother. Once upon a time in Moscow a rich boyar, Matvei Andreev, lived in Moscow, […]...
22. Summary Updike D. D John Hoyer Updike (born January 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) is a famous American writer, author of 28 novels and 45 other books: collections of short stories, poems, essays. Born in Redding, he lived in Schillington, the same state of Pennsylvania until age 13. Father – school teacher, mother wrote stories. In 1954 he […]...
23. Biography of Johnny Wilkinson Johnny Wilkinson – a player in rugby, was born on May 25, 1979 in Surrey, England. Johnny Wilkinson’s biography is best known as the history of the brilliant player of the English Rugby Union in the position of the fly-Half. Johnny was one of the most famous professional players in rugby. He became a real […]...
24. Summary In more often R. Akutagawa In more often The story of the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunoske is considered the best in the world story ever written. Several people talk about the murder, everything is different, and it is difficult for the reader to establish what really happened in the thicket of the forest and in the wilds of […]...
25. Summary “The Parisian Mother of God” Chudinova The revenge in Western Europe was captured by Muslim immigrants. The Shariah is legalized. Catholic churches are destroyed and indulged. The French, who did not accept Islam, live in the ghetto. Notre-Dame Cathedral was turned into Al-Franconi mosque. Catholic Church. By the time the Muslim expansion began, it had become a “parody of itself,” a […]...
26. Anglo-Saxon kingdoms In the early fifth century. the Roman troops permanently left Britain, inhabited then by the Celtic tribes. The dust had not yet settled behind them, and the German tribes of the Angles, Saxons, Utes had already come to Britain and unceremoniously settled on the land of the owners. VIII century. From the work of the […]...
27. Summary: Harivansha “The Hari clan” is an ancient Indian epic poem in 3 books, considered an attachment to the “Mahabharata”. The first and third books of the poem set forth the most important Hindu myths about the creation, origin of the gods and demons, the legendary kings of the Sun and Moon dynasties, earth incarnations for the […]...
28. The emergence of the English Parliament Henry III did not fulfill the obligations, therefore in 1263 a civil war broke out in England. The army of Simon de Montfort defeated the royal army, captured Henry III and Crown Prince. In the beginning of 1265 Simon de Montfort actually became the dictator of England. To strengthen his power, he convened the Supreme […]...
29. Summary of the “Black Arrow” by Stevenson The action takes place in England in the second half of the XV century. during the Wars of the Roses. In the village of Tenstall, owned by Sir Daniel Brackley, a messenger appears who brings Sir Daniel’s order to the entire male population of the village to immediately march. The detachment should be led by […]...
30. Viking cruelty. Alfred the Great Germans cruelly treated the Celts, but they themselves suffered from the cruelty of the Vikings, especially the Danes. From the end of the VIII to the middle of the X century. the north-eastern part of England was devastated by the Danes, who left no stone on it. Medieval author sadly reported that the Danes killed […]...
31. Summary of “Boyarynya” The narrator yearns for times when “Russians were Russian”, and Moscow beauties wore sarafans, and did not flaunt themselves in Gallo-Saxon dresses. To resurrect these glorious times, the narrator decided to retell the story he had heard from his grandmother’s grandmother. Once upon a time in Moscow a rich boyar, Matvei Andreev, lived in Moscow, […]...
32. Biography Stevenson Robert Lewis Stevenson (Stevenson) Robert Lewis (13.11.1850, Edinburgh, – 3.12.1894, the island of Upolu, Samoa), an English writer. Scotsman by birth, son of an engineer. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Edinburgh University (1875). He traveled a lot. Suffering a severe form of tuberculosis, from 1890 he lived on the islands of Samoa. The first […]...
33. Summary Black Arrow RL Stevenson Black Arrow The action takes place in England in the second half of the 15th century, during the Wars of the Roses and the Roses. In the village of Tenstall, owned by Sir Daniel Brackley, a messenger appears who brings Sir Daniel’s order to the entire male population of the village to immediately […]...
34. Summary “Svyatogor bogatyr” A long epic is considered by many to be fiction, comparing it with fairy tales. However, epic, that is, byl, differs significantly from folk fantasy. Of course, the events described in the stories are much exaggerated. But scientists find confirmation that they took place in real life. For example, in the caves of the Kiev […]...
35. Why do we strive for the ideal The embodiment of our ideas about the perfect person is a moral ideal, that is, a person who has the best moral qualities. At all times people have sought to determine what an ideal set of virtues is. For already two millennia the moral ideal of many people is the Son of God, Jesus Christ, […]...
36. Summary “The Snow Queen” by Andersen 1. Once upon a time there was an evil troll, and one day he made a mirror that reflected all the imperfections of objects reflected in it. The troll’s students began to run around the world with this mirror, and finally they wanted to get to the sky, god and angels. But the higher they […]...
37. “Joys and sorrows of the famous Moll Flanders” Defoe in brief summary In everyday life this work Defoe is called briefly: “Moll Flanders”, and with the subtitle title is even longer: “who was twelve years old woman, five times married, twelve years old thief, eight years exiled in Virginia, but at the end of her life became rich.” Based on the fact that the story of her […]...
38. Biography of Peter Crouch Peter Crouch – footballer, was born on January 30, 1981 in McClesfield, Cheshire, England. Best known as the two-meter forward Liverpool Reds. Of all the players who played for Liverpool and England, Peter Crouch is much higher. Having tried himself in several teams of professional football, Peter in 2005 settled on the team “Liverpool”, becoming […]...
39. Summary of Shakespeare’s Macbeth The scene of the tragedy occurs in XI. in Scotland and England. I talk three witches about when they will meet again, and agree that after the victory of one of the parties. In a military camp near Forres, the Scottish king Duncan receives the joyful news that Macbeth, the cousin of the king, defeated […]...
40. First Plantagenets. Henry II. Richard the Lionheart William the Conqueror made England a powerful state. But it became more powerful under the dynasty Plantagenet. With the death in 1135 of King Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, the Norman dynasty ended. A fierce struggle for power broke out in England. Barons no longer obeyed the king, built their own […]...