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Walter Scott was born in 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a lawyer, and as a young man Walter was expected to follow in his footsteps. In 1786 he was apprenticed to his father, but he preferred reading to studying. After a childhood spent often in a sickbed, Scott married in 1797. Around the same time, he began publishing poems and slowly made a name for himself as a narrative poet. His long, novelistic poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and The Lady of the Lake (1810), were extremely popular throughout England. However, by around 1813 Lord Byron had overtaken him in popularity and literary success as a narrative poet, and Scott turned to novels to revitalize his career. His Waverly (1814), a historical novel set during the Scottish Jacobite rebellion of 1745, became a huge success, and Scott began a long career as a historical novelist. Many of his works were about the history of Scotland, but his best and most famous novel, 1819's Ivanhoe, had nothing to do with Scotland at all. Set in England in the last years of the twelfth century, Ivanhoe tells the story of a noble knight involved with King Richard I--known to history as "Richard the Lion-Hearted"--and his return to England from the Crusades, the long wars during which the forces of Christian Europe sought to conquer the Holy Land of Jerusalem from its Muslim occupants.
Richard mounted the Third Crusade in 1190, shortly after attaining the English crown. Richard had far less interest in ruling his nation wisely than in winning the city of Jerusalem and finding honor and glory on the battlefield. He left England precipitously, and it quickly fell into a dismal state in the hands of his brother, Prince John, the legendarily greedy ruler from the Robin Hood stories. In John's hands, England languished. The two peoples who occupied the nation--the Saxons, who ruled England until the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and the French-speaking Normans, who conquered the Saxons--were increasingly at odds, as powerful Norman nobles began gobbling up Saxon lands.
The role of Christianity in the epic of Beowulf and the adventure of Ivanhoe is displayed in two different ways. ... Ivanhoe, although he is a Christian, gallantly accepts the challenge to protect the Jew. ... There are also various facets of the medieval church represented in Ivanhoe. ... One likeness of the legends of Arthur to Ivanhoe is Lancelot and Robin Hood. ... Ivanhoe is first and foremost an adventure. ...
In his novel Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott first introduces the reader to his wild character Ulrica the Hag in chapter 24, where she is known as Urfried. ... The only mercy she shows the Jewess is when Rebecca is able to persuade Urfried to leave the imprisonment of the tower and help the wounded Ivanhoe. ...
(Ivanhoe CMSC 2) In other words, his philosophies meant for filial sons and daughters to not just perform the rites and act respectfully to their parents, but to do so out of filial piety. ... Confucius suggested that someone who wished to study moral ethics, practice and reflect upon them in all aspects of his life (Ivanhoe 1). ... Analect 3.7 says two things: first, it shows the gentlemanly conduct of dismissing what may be natural reactions and negative tendencies; secondly, it puts even more focus on the importance that harmonious relationships play in the process of self-refinement (Ivan...
One of the biggest companies to influence mining would be Ivanhoe Mines (Canadian mining company). The Mongolian government signed an investment agreement with Ivanhoe Mines to develop the "Oyu Tolgoi" copper/gold mine. ... Ivanhoe Mines has said "the project with "Oyu Tolgoi" has the potential to achieve a mill throughput of 170,000 tpd" (mining-technology.com). ...
Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor was born in London on February 27,1932. However, her parents were both American making her an American Citizen. At the start of World War Two, the Taylor's moved back to the United States. When they got back, her mother encouraged her to work in Hollywood. In...
Satirical Sensations During the realistic movement authors wrote novels depicting the world as it really was in which true to life characters would have real problems concerning issues of the time period. In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain relates the story of a young South...
