Michael Herzog

A Novel About Geoffrey Chaucer

This Passing World

Spring, 1944: Maria Herzog is a thirteen-year-old German girl living in Ukraine and praying for the end of World War II. On March 19th, Maria, her father, mother (eight months pregnant), and three younger brothers are put on a small horse-drawn wagon and sent west, along with thousands of other ethnic Germans "liberated" by the retreating Nazi army. Over the next three years, Maria carries her new baby brother in her arms as she trudges alongside the too-small wagon through Romania and Poland, helps her mother protect and feed her four brothers even while she herself must be safe-guarded from soldiers of various armies, survives countless nights in a Berlin air raid shelter, works on a farm in what will become East Germany and, along with her mother and four brothers, is finally reunited with her ex-p.o.w father in what will become West Germany. Multiple, repeated efforts over five years result in Maria and her family coming to the United States, where she can finally leave behind the life of a refugee across half a dozen countries and become an American citizen. She marries a good man and has the opportunity to raise her own children and grandchildren in the peace and freedom denied to her for the fi rst twenty years of life. This is the first-person narrative of Maria Herzog McKeirnan, now 86 years old, and the story of thousands of others like her who survived a communist regime and German occupation in Ukraine, a harrowing 1,500 mile trek through war-ravaged Europe, and countless dangers, as she and her family found various temporary shelters in the midst of the raging storms that were her daily experience of life. Her story is a tribute to the importance of hope and to the resilience of the human spirit in the midst of violence and the seemingly inevitable destruction of civilization. Anyone who is interested in the power of family and its role in human survival will find this story to be interesting, inspiring and restorative.

The Story of Maria Herzog McKeirnan

Shelter in the Storm

Weijia Jia

Hui Zhang

Tianyong Hao

Yong Tang

Tian Wang

Raymond S. T. Lee

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2021, held in Zhuhai, China in November 2021. 35 full papers were accepted together with 8 short papers out of 58 submissions. The papers focus on the following subjects: Emerging Technologies for Education, Digital Technology, Creativity, and Education; Education Technology (Edtech) and ICT for Education; Education + AI; Adaptive Learning, Emotion and Behaviour Recognition and Understanding in Education; as well as papers from the International Symposium on User Modeling and Language Learning (UMLL2021) and the International Workshop on Educational Technology for Language Learning (ETLL 2021).

6th International Symposium, SETE 2021, Zhuhai, China, November 11–12, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

Emerging Technologies for Education

Well-traveled medieval pilgrims were often covered in tokens of the pilgrimage sites they had visited, much like the station wagons of the 1960s would have flaunted stickers from Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, etc. Below is a medallion pilgrims might have received when they prayed at Becket's tomb in Canterbury. This one is an artistic rendering of the sacred shrine, as found in this manuscript in 2015. The translator and editor of this only complete version of Chaucer's great work, Michael B. Herzog, Professor Emeritus of English, Gonzaga University, has devoted the first five years of his retirement to re-introducing modern readers to Geoffrey Chaucer and the wonderful art of Chaucer's storytelling. Throughout history, believers of every kind have made pilgrimages to sacred sites. In Medieval England, the most popular pilgrimage destination was Canterbury, the centerpiece of whose magnificent cathedral was an extraordinary, lavishly-decorated tomb that held the bones of St Thomas á Becket. In Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th century Canterbury Tales, a random collection of pilgrims who meet in London agree to make the three day horseback trip to Canterbury together and to tell stories to each other, with the best tale to be acknowledged by the reward of a dinner for the teller, at the expense of the other pilgrims. To the frustration of modern readers, Chaucer had finished perhaps only three-quarters of his masterpiece when he died in 1400. But then, in 2015, a miracle. In an archeological dig near London's Westminster Abbey the book you now hold in your hand was found, the only complete version of the Tales. Here, for the first time ever, readers can meet all thirty fascinating, raucous, endearing, unabashed pilgrims, enjoy each of their intriguing, surprising and uncensored tales; and discover to which of them the Host awards the prize for telling the best story.

The Only Complete Version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Pilgrimage

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