Ivanhoe: A Romance

Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. At the time it was written, the novel represented a shift by Scott away from writing novels set in Scotland in the fairly recent past to England in the Middle Ages. Cedric is so loyal to the Saxon cause that he has disinherited his son Ivanhoe for following King Richard to w...