... Battle of Hastings, England was quickly conforming under the Norman rule of a lion-hearted Crusade fighter, King Richard. Ivanhoe, the hero of this historical romance, represents a possible resolution to the growing strains between the Normans and the Saxons, for he is a Saxon knight who is passionately loyal to a ... in Ivanhoe. The Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert represents the church's military wing, but this supposed knight is an outright villain as the book soon reveals. Prior Aymer represents the monastic wing, but this presumed solitary figure is addicted to food, wine, and pleasu...

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