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    The Parlement of Foules (modernized: Parliament of Fowls), also called the Parlement of Briddes (Parliament of Birds) or the Assemble of Foules (Assembly...
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    ("The life so short, the craft so long to learn", the first line of the Parlement of Foules). The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day...
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    many of his major works in a prolific period when he worked as customs comptroller for London (1374 to 1386). His Parlement of Foules, The Legend of Good...
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    Dante's account of heaven and hell. Chaucer referred to the work in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" and especially in the Parlement of Foules. Some critics consider...
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    Western culture into the early modern era. For instance, Chaucer's Parlement of Foules contains a reference to "the Ialous swan, ayens his deth that singeth...
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    Commons has media related to Conference of the Birds. Language of the birds Panentheism Parlement of Foules Persian literature The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim...
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  • Frame story (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Parlement of Foules, and The Legend of Good Women (the last also containing a...
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    John Lydgate (category People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury)
    Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess); The Temple of Glas (indebted to The House of Fame); The Floure of Curtesy (like the Parlement of Foules, a Valentine's...
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    Parlement of Foules and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, did not exist before Chaucer. He argues that the speculative explanation of...
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    Flyting (category Genres of poetry)
    poem The Owl and the Nightingale and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parlement of Foules contain elements of flyting. Flyting became public entertainment in Scotland...
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  • Terence Tiller (category Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge)
    Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (which did not please the author). He adapted and modernized Chaucer's The Parlement of Foules in 1958. In 1964 he moved...
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  • Criseyde and the Parlement of Foules, written in the later fourteenth century. He also used it for four of the Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale, the...
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    Flying Dutchman (category Ships of the Netherlands)
    account of the Second Circle of Hell in his Inferno, alludes to a punishment of a similar kind in his poem The Parlement of Foules: "And breakers of the laws...
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  • Chaucer writes the poem Parlement of Foules. 1383 16 May – Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, leads a crusade against supporters of the Avignon Pope in...
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  • include A treatise on the Astrolabe, Parlement of foules, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde...
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    Sergei Alexandrovsky (category National University of Kharkiv alumni)
    works are the first Russian-language versions of The Boke of the Duchesse and The Parlement of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Shepheardes Calender by...
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  • The Complaint of Mars, but also his other romantic poem Parlement of Foules, which was often read on Saint Valentine's. "The Complaint of Mars (text)"...
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    within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In Chaucer's Parlement of Foules (1382) he wrote;...
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  • plour Le Songe de sain Valentin (imitated by Chaucer in The parlement of Foules and the Book of the Duchess) La Belle dame qui eut mercy was attributed to...
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    echoed and transformed in the works of Alain de Lille, in the Roman de la Rose, in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, and in Gower's Confessio Amantis. Although...
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  • Findern Manuscript (category Manuscripts held by the University of Cambridge)
    centuries by a series of gentry who were neighbors in the countryside of Derbyshire. A list of its major texts creates a “greatest hits” of fourteenth-century...
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  • similar. A good example is found in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, which, among other things, features a list of trees: The bilder ook, and eek the hardy asshe;...
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  • Jack A. W. Bennett (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    Other works include The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation (1957); Chaucer's Book of Fame: An Exposition of "The House of Fame" (1960); and Chaucer...
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  • and courtly poetry, including selections from Geoffrey Chaucer (Parlement of Foules and other texts), John Gower (some tales from the Confessio Amantis)...
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    Jean de Carrouges (category Christians of the Battle of Nicopolis)
    medieval France for fighting in one of the last judicial duels permitted by the French king and the Parlement of Paris (the actual last duel occurred...
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    ceremonies, such as the king's special sessions of the parlement, meetings with the English and the release of the king's sons from captivity. In December...
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    d'Estrées as the mother of his son and as "the subject the most worthy of our friendship"; in other words, Henry IV had the Parlement of Paris officially ratify...
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  • X rating (category British Board of Film Classification)
    p. 211. ISBN 978-0-9550143-2-1. darkness-fanzine.over-blog.com. "Le Parlement abroge les dispositions fiscales votées en 1975 pour les films à caractère...
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    2307/3165566. JSTOR 3165566. S2CID 162701996. Soman, Alfred (July 1978). "The Parlement of Paris and the Great Witch Hunt (1565-1640)". Sixteenth Century Journal...
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    Mazarin, tried to impose a new tax upon the Parlement of Paris, which consisted of a group of prominent nobles of the city. When they refused to pay, Mazarin...
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