Ivanhoe is a pretty decent read. It started out slow, and the medieval English took some getting used to, but once I got into it, I really started enjoying it. This story is definitely one of what chivalry is and is not. Ivanhoe, even though he is absent throughout most of the book, is portrayed ...
Everyone told me that I wouldn't like this book, and that I'd be bored out of my mind. My scholar-of-Medieval-history mother even told me it was incredibly boring. I loved it. The two major characters are rather uninteresting, but they're not even really in the book that much. This will probably get...
In Ivanhoe, Scott skillfully undermines the alienating characteristics of the medieval gothic while taking advantage of its familiarity to and popularity with nineteenth-century audiences. Although containing elements reminiscent of the earlier gothic, such as the corruption and intrigue of religio...
For a while, in high school, my reading consisted of 1)novels published in their entirety n Good Housekeeping 2)PBS miniseries novels 3)hypothetical high school reading list 4)plays and 5)what I found on the drugstore paperback rack.I crushed on Andrews in Brideshead, so of course I watched Ivanhoe ...
I had no idea there was humor. Love the scene between the Black Prince and the Clerk of Copmanhurst. Also Athelstane's experience...and appetite. It did take a while to get into the book....I complained to a friend that all I had experienced so far (the first 50 pages or so) was description, descr...
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