https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32055 2026-04-27T12:14:03Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20860 Title: Hyphen : Volume 3, Number 3 Editors: Mallia-Milanes, Victor; Scerri, Louis J.; Zammit Ciantar, Joe; Caruana Carabez, Charles Abstract: Hyphen, Volume 3, Number 3 (1982) 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20859 Title: The 'Murie Tale of Chauntecleer' Abstract: The amusing tale of the vain cock and .the deceitful fox is narrated by one of the 'Preeste thre' in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer gives us no further information about this character. The only thing we learn about him at this stage is that he is accompanying the Prioress on the pilgrimage to Canterbury. Yet he comes to life when the Host turns to "This sweete preest, this goodly man, Sir John" and urges him to narrate a merry tale that would cheer up the whole company of pilgrims. Chaucer's vivid account of the cock's adventure is a fine piece of mock-heroic writing as he treats a trivial subject in the heroic manner which is usually reserved for epic poetry to enhance the qualities and achievements of heroes. However, mock-heroic is not intended to praise but to ridicule and in the process of doing so it gives rise to comedy. The humour 'results from the incongruity that exists between a subject matter that as so common place and a style that is so grand. A farmyard is an unlikely place for such a lofty form of expression! Yet this is the domain where the princelike hero, Chauntecleer, exercises his "governaunce". 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20858 Title: The Order of St. John, 1793-1797 : impending collapse of a glorious heritage : the despatches of Antonio Miari, Venetian Minister in Malta Abstract: By the time Fra Antonio Miari had assumed the office of Huomo della Repubblica in Malta, the Order's fate lay less in: the hands of Grandmaster De Rohan and his State Council than in those of the directors of national policy in France. Within the narrow span of four days (19-22 September 1792), the publication of the venomous 'loi spoliateur', which nationalised all the Knights' possessions in France, the abolition of the French Monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic, provoked within the Order an acute sense of isolation and impending disaster. On 22 October of the same year the National Convention abolished the Institution in France. This essay does not set out to provide a general survey of the original events which led to the final collapse of the Order of St. John. These are now widely known. Its concern is with an intelligent, perceptive and intriguing firsthand account of the final four years of De Rohan's magistracy by Antonio Miari, a 38-year-old contemporary observer from Belluno and the Grandmaster's Secretary for Italian Affairs, gripped as he was by the 'terreur de l'avenir' which the upheaval ,of the French Revolution generated within his Order. 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20857 Title: Accounting techniques in business management Abstract: Though accounting is not the whole of control accounting records provide most of the data, their advantage being that facts of great diversity can be represented in the common denominator of money. From its accounts management acquaints itself with the financial position of the business and gauges the amount of any profit made. Accountants have always been the historians of the business, but today they are much more, dealing with the financial :and illegal complications of investments, taxation, the granting of credit, and the prevention of error and fraud. Management accounting is described as a system of standards, orders, records and reports. Facts emerge from reports on current operations, revealing deviations, leading swiftly to investigation and remedy. Where traditional accounting emphasizes the analysis of transactions, management accounting is concerned with the detection land isolation of areas of special difficulty and with the diagnosis of emerging trends. Top executives are bound to use forecasts and budgets extensively. 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z