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	Cockaigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cockaigne was a medieval land, a mythical land of plenty, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life did not exist.
		In the early nineteenth century the name Cockaigne came to be applied to London, and some have argued that it was the original pre-Roman name for the city, from which the word Cockney (for the inhabitants of the East End of London) is derived.
		Cockaigne is the name of the kingdom which Princess Narda in the comic strip Mandrake the Magician comes from.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cockaigne (598 words)

	A great place for winter fun - Ski Cockaigne
		Cockaigne Ski Area is a family ski area located in western New York’s snow belt.
		Cockaigne combination of slopes (300 feet wide) and New England style trails (15 feet wide) combined with longest run of 3600 feet provide abundant snow time for the whole family.
		Truly, "Cockaigne" was that imaginary dream of the hard-working medieval common man. The legend was popular during the 16th and 17th centuries.
	www.cockaigne.com (580 words)

	Cockaigne: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Middle english is the name given by historical philologists to the diverse forms of the english language spoken in england from around the 12th to the 15th century15th...
		Cockaigne was depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in The Land of Cockaigne (1567, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Antillia (or antilia) was a phantom island said to lie in the atlantic ocean far to the west of spain....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cockaigne.htm (1507 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cockaygne
		The Dutch equivalent is Luilekkerland ("lazy luscious land") and the German equivalent is Schlarraffenland ("land of milk and honey").
		Like Atlantis and El Dorado, the land of Cockaigne was a fictional utopia, a place where idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations.
		The Land of Cokaygne [also spelled Cockaygne or Cockaigne] (in the German tradition referred to as Schlaraffenland) has been aptly called the "poor man's heaven", being a popular fantasy of pure hedonism and thus a foil for the innocent and instinctively virtuous life that is depicted in all the other accounts mentioned above.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cockaygne (629 words)

	ElgarCockaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Elgar's Overture is not a prelude to an opera but a substantial concert opener based on the idea of Cockaigne.
		This fantasy land of splendour and delights, which may well have spawned the term "cockney", was an Edwardian conceit.
		Thus, considering the strength and position of the British Empire in 1901 when Elgar wrote his Overture, it is hardly surprising that the mythical land of Cockaigne represented a vibrant London Town, then the foremost capital of the world.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /nso/ElgarCockaigne.htm (259 words)

	Succinct description of Cockaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Cockaigne is densely populated, with much of its population crowded into cities that are, though provided with ample facilities, too densely inhabited for social well-being.
		Cockaigne was an opponent of the Empire in the Formation Wars, and had to be reduced by a naval taskforce in 418 PDT.
		Cockaigne flourished for a century of so, but population growth and inadequate investment led to social strain and economic stagnation.
	members.iinet.net.au /~agemegos/FB05/cockbrief.html (730 words)

	Weird Words: Cockaigne
		Cockaigne was the Big Rock Candy Mountain of medieval Europe, where the living was easy and the land flowed with milk and honey.
		The idea of Cockaigne was popular in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in writing and in illustration (Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it under its German name Schlaraffenland; in the nineteenth century the German version of the tale was collected into a book by Ludwig Bechstein).
		However, in the early years of the nineteenth century it began to be applied to London, surprisingly so you might think for a noisy, smoky, dirty city of vast inequalities that so obviously could not be the land of legend.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-coc2.htm (427 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Land of make-believe
		Cockaigne is not the agent of the fantasies considered by Pleij, but what those fantasies are often about: it is the name that people in the middle ages gave to an imagined land filled with all the things that their own lives lacked.
		The familiarity of the notion of Cockaigne across medieval and early modern Europe is suggested by a sub-section of the book that deals with the discovery of the New World.
		But it is a convincing argument that what the travellers saw and isolated as worthy of note was frequently conditioned by their knowledge of the stock features of medieval conceptions of perfect worlds.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/history/0,6121,534928,00.html (1263 words)

	Kursaal
		In fact, she is, and she takes Sam to meet the real Cockaigne, who reveals that Amy was helping him to find evidence that Saturnia Regna was the last home of the now-extinct Jax species and thus worth preserving from GrayCorp.
		Cockaigne finds a GrayCorp excavation bomb planted in the cathedral site, and Johnson returns to the flitter to make sure it’s ready for takeoff while the Doctor translates the Jax hieroglyphics on the walls of the cathedral.
		Cockaigne manages to defuse the excavation bomb, but then Kadjik arrives with a squad of guards who kill the Jax drones, and informs them that there is a second bomb primed to bring down the tunnel system.
	www.drwhoguide.com /whobbc07.htm (1920 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/Cockaigne
		Outside, in the dark, a wobbly patch of life upon the blue snow, the deer perhaps browsed, her soft blob of a nose rapturously sunk in the chilly winter greenery, her modest brain-stem steeped in some dream of a Cockaigne for herbivores.
		Everyone was seeking renewal, a golden century, a Cockaigne of the spirit.
		Cockaigne comes from Middle English cokaygne, from Middle French (pais de) cocaigne "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word meaning "cake."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/08/18.html (100 words)

	DCSki: Presday weekend trip recap. Cockaigne and 7S
		The trails at cockaigne are IMO the primary attraction.
		Cockaigne is not the kind of palce I woudl ever drive for 6 hours to go to.
		Never been to Cockaigne, but know of the frequent lake effect snows up that way from visiting relatives in Buffalo.
	www.dcski.com /ubbthreads22/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=13796 (1075 words)

	[Elgar - Overture: Cockaigne] notes by Paul Serotsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		By the time Cockaigne appeared (1901), Elgar's style had matured, although that similarity to Strauss was still detectable.
		Elgar noted, in the score of this explicit evocation of contemporary London, that “Cockaigne” is traditionally the fictitious “Land of All Delights” (a.k.a.
		Elgar dedicated Cockaigne to his “many friends the members of British Orchestras”; the imaginative scoring, encompassing chamber-like filigree and bombastic military band, certainly gave every corner of the orchestra plenty to chew on.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /Programme_Notes/elgar_cockov.htm (580 words)

	Edward Elgar : Symphony No 1 Cockaigne Overture (mackerras) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		sergei prokofiev : piano concertos 3 and 5 (ashkenazy lso previn) : michael de jong : park bench serenade, edward elgar %3A symphony no 1 cockaigne overture %28mackerras%29 various artists : snowstorm - a tribute to galaxie 500, tristania : world of glass.
		edward elgar : symphony no 1 cockaigne overture (mackerras) : the smashing pumpkins : siamese dream.
		richard beirach and jeremy steig : leaving : norrlatar : raven, michael gorman : the sligo champion, edward elgar %3A symphony no 1 cockaigne overture %28mackerras%29 johann sebastian bach : st matthew passion (highlights).
	www.cd-discounts.net /edward-elgar-%3A-symphony-no-1-cockaigne-overture-%28mackerras%29.html (1057 words)

	Cockaigne, Land of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		COCKAIGNE, LAND OF [Cockaigne, Land of], legendary country described in medieval tales, where delicacies of food and drink were to be had for the taking.
		The Land of Cockaygne is a 13th-century English poem satirizing monastic life.
		Magazines and Newspapers for: Cockaigne, Land of or search in Pictures and Maps for Cockaigne, Land of
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cockaign.asp (205 words)

	Cockaigne ski area
		Cockaigne has a low variety of runs and not too many lifts.
		Cockaigne is a good ski area for the whole family with lots of easy runs for beginners.
		Cockaigne is a cozy ski area and people who work there are very nice.
	www.gottagoitsnows.com /skiareas/1166.html (554 words)

	Dreaming of Cockaigne; Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life; Herman Pleij
		Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to allay anxieties about an increasingly elusive heavenly paradise.
		Illustrated with extraordinary artwork from the Middle Ages, Herman Pleij's Dreaming of Cockaigne is a spirited account of this lost paradise and the world that brought it to life.
		Pleij draws upon his thorough knowledge of medieval European literature, art, history, and folklore to describe the fantasies that fed the tales of Cockaigne and their connections to the central obsessions of medieval life.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231117027.HTM (534 words)

	Amazon.com: Dreaming of Cockaigne: Books: Herman Pleij,Diane Webb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Like Atlantis and El Dorado, the land of Cockaigne was a fictional utopia, a place where idleness (money could be earned even while one slept) and gluttony (buildings and roads were made of food just waiting to be devoured) were the principal occupations.
		Grounded in peasant culture, Cockaigne was never taken seriously by medieval men and women but offered a way to cope with immediate concerns of famine and backbreaking work, as well as more monumental fears about heaven and the New World recently opened up by European adventurers.
		This work is a serious and even ponderous scholarly study based on two Dutch manuscripts that the author, a lecturer in Dutch historical literature at the University of Amsterdam, subjects to rigorous textual, paleographical and stylistic analysis before dealing with the importance of this fable for medieval men and women.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231117027?v=glance (1113 words)

	Contact the Innkeepers
		Cockaigne Ski Area, Cherry Creek, NY Chautauqua County Fallen Heros Fund Benefit.
		Cockaigne Ski Area, Cherry Creek, NY Timed medal event - open to all ages, male and female.
		Cockaigne Ski Area, Cherry Creek, NY Trophy Race with lots of drawings and giveaways.
	www.cherrycreekinn.net /february.html (384 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > A 10-Year-Long Art History Course
		The title is a reference to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Land of Cockaigne" (1559), a moral allegory set in a land of plenty where the houses are tiled with cakes, the fences are made of sausages and the fowl fly roasted and ready to eat.
		"Cockaigne" is one artist's response to what the critic Harold Bloom called the "anxiety of influence," an attempt, in Mr.
		Desiderio's words, "to reconfigure the history of art in order to create imaginative space for ourselves." The painting is on display at the Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th Street, through Saturday.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/arts/design/01FINE.html (740 words)

	The Educator : Upsaid journal
		Your description sounds like the land of cockaigne.
		Trivia: References to Cockaigne are prominent in medieval European lore.
		George Ellis, in his Specimens of Early English Poets (1790), printed an old French poem called "The Land of Cockaign" (13th century) where "the houses were made of barley sugar and cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing."
	www.upsaid.com /theeducators/index.php?action=viewcom&id=22 (230 words)

	Recipe for the Death Cake
		Cockaigne was an imaginary land of paradise, but in the 19th century, the Land of Cockaigne referred to London.
		The icing on the cake is a rich fudge Cockaigne.
		As we noted above, Cockaigne is the land of paradise, also known as London.
	www.kaleberg.com /food/deathcake.html (1956 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Houses were made of cake and barley sugar, streets were paved with pastry and shops gave away their goods.
		The cellar in question is Jan Boland Coetzee's Talana Hill, with Smollen a member of a consortium of investors in Domaines Paradyskloof - paradise valley being the Afrikaans translation of Cockaigne.
		Smollen is a self-confessed Burgundy nut, which explains his enthusiasm for the Paradyskloof Pinot Noir, a maiden vintage which was released last year after two decades of tinkering by Coetzee.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2003/05/11/lifestyle/life11.asp (719 words)

	The James Dean Story / The Bells of Cockaigne (1953/1957), Deluxe Pack - 82359
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		"The Bells of Cockaigne" (1953) originally airing as a one-hour TV drama on the Armstrong Circle Theater, provides a rare glimpse at a young Dean in a co-starring role.
		It is about a man who comes to the aid of a poor family when their child is stricken with illness.
	www.tipsdr.com /merit/233-001-001-fs.html (248 words)

	Contact the Innkeepers
		Cockaigne Ski Area Cherry Creek, NY Trophy Race sponsored by Southern Tier Brewery.
		Cockaigne Ski Area Cherry Creek, NY Trophy Race- all ages - Male and Female sponsored by Sanko Photography,
		Cockaigne Ski Area, Cherry Creek, NY Super G NASTAR - 11:00 AM, NASTAR - 1:00 PM.
	www.cherrycreekinn.net /january.html (133 words)

	Directions to Cockaige Ski Resort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Cockaigne is 18 miles from I-90 N.Y.S. Thruway.
		Cockaigne is eleven miles from Interstate 86 (Route 17) the Southern Tier Expressway.
		Take exit 14 to Route 62 North to Ellington and pick up Route 66 West to Cockaigne.
	www.cockaigne.com /direct.html (62 words)

	RSN New York - Cockaigne Ski Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Take exit 59 to route 60 south to Sinclairville to route 66 to Cockaigne.
		Take exit 14 for route 62 north to Ellington and pick up route 66 to Cockaigne.
		The Grainery Restaurant is directly across the road from Cockaigne.
	www.rsn.com /cams/usnycock/profile_stats.html?bc=SSI (160 words)

	Ski Cockaigne Ski Resort, USA - Skiing and Snowboarding in the American Ski Resort
		Cockaigne Ski Resort offers good sking, particularly, for Intermediate skiers.
		Cockaigne Ski Resort offers some good boarding and there is a Snow Park.
		It is not definitive and you must confirm all data for yourself before you act upon it.
	www.j2ski.com /american_ski_resorts/USA/Cockaigne_Ski_Resort.html (189 words)

	Elgar - His Music : Cockaigne (In London Town)
		Dispirited by the perceived failure of the first performance of The Dream of Gerontius, Elgar uttered his oft-quoted remark "I always knew God was against art..."...and quickly set to work on this overture.
		It is supposed to present a musical portrait of life in turn-of-the-century London - admittedly a somewhat romanticized portrait, for Cockaigne is the fabulous country of luxury and delight.
		Elgar wrote a detailed programme for the work, including lovers in a secluded public garden and a brass band appearing round a corner.
	www.elgar.org /3cock.htm (230 words)

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