Liturgical Time in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Liturgies are communal in nature, and in the context of the medieval Christian economy of time they are developed and utilised to quantify, consecrate, control, utilise and unify time for the comprehensive end of the welfare of the society, both in the Here and in the Here-after. The liturgy was a social institution, and functioned for anniversaries, holy days, holidays and rituals that were the means of medieval social integrity. In the economy of socio-political and ethical life, the medieval Church linked the sacred to the secular by means of the liturgy. They were used for meditation, as well as a measurement of time, and arguably they were manipulated to parody or satirise the strictly hierarchal estates of the medieval society. Though one of the least liturgical books of his time, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is framed by the liturgical institution of the pilgrimage. Actually a pilgrim travelogue, it depicts the secularisation of liturgy and its appropriation for social control, and paradoxically, a carnivalesque celebration of the reversal of social hierarchy.

Study of Mechanics Control Server Application Software on EAST-NBI

The Neutral Beam Injector (NBI) is one of the main plasma heating methods for Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokomaks (EAST). In order to provide unify time-order control, control the power supply and ensure the NBI system stable and reliable effectively, the control system is designed. As the center of the control system, control server plays a crucial role which can control the input/output services of the whole NBI system, verify whether the experimental parameters of EAST-NBI are reasonable, monitor the states of the experimental equipment in real time, storage the real-time data and make it easy to perform self-protection and alarm automatically. This design is related to many kinds of technologies, such as shared memory, multithreading, TCP protocol and so on.