Ivanhoe (Annotated)

Set in twelfth-century England during the uneasy aftermath of the Crusades, Walter Scott's Ivanhoe dramatizes the conflict between Saxon inheritance and Norman power through chivalric adventure, political intrigue, and romantic idealism. Its tournament scenes, disguises, sieges, and rescues are rendered in a richly antiquarian style, while figures such as Rebecca, Rowena, Richard the Lionheart, an...