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- The title of Sir Walter Scott's most popular and best-known novel is derived from an old rhyme which records the names of three manors forfeited by a nobleman for striking the Black Prince with his tennis racket. "Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe" were the three estates.
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Ivanhoe: A Romance (/ ˈaɪvənˌhoʊ /) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more recent past.
- Walter Scott
- 1820
Ivanhoe, historical romance by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819. It concerns the life of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a fictional Saxon knight. Despite the criticism it has received because of its historical inaccuracies, the novel is one of Scott’s most popular works.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 novel set in late twelfth-century England, has a claim to being the most influential novel of the entire nineteenth century. It was hugely popular, and remains so, with such figures as Tony Blair and Ho Chi Minh both declaring it their favourite novel. Why has Ivanhoe endured, and why did Scott write it ...
The Plantagenet kings, who ruled England from 1216 to 1399, were so-called because the father of Henry II, a Frenchman, wore a sprig of yellow broom flower in his helmet. This bright-hued flower still grows wild along the roadside in southern France.
Ivanhoe was highly successful upon its appearance, and may be said to have procured for its author the freedom of the Rules, since he has ever since been permitted to exercise his powers of fictitious composition in England, as well as Scotland.
Dec 30, 2001 · One of the last of the Anglo-Saxon nobility, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, son of Cedric the Saxon, is in love Rowena, another Saxon scion of the aristocracy and ward of Wilfred's father, who hopes to reinforce the blood of the Saxon royal line by marrying her to Athelstane of Coningsburgh.
Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight who supports the Norman king, Richard the Lionheart, in his struggle against his brother, Prince John, and the Templar knight, Brian de Bois-Guilbert. The novel’s major themes include the conflict between Saxons and Normans and the tension between Christianity and Judaism.
