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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Ivanhoe: Chapters 1 - 5
Chapter One
When Richard-the-Lion-Hearted ruled England, the great barons freely
plundered the country and schemed to take the power of the crown into their
own hands. Their ambitions depended upon two otherwise unrelated facts. First,
the king who might have restrained them had been imprisoned in Austria while
returning from the First Crusade (see Introduction). Few Englishmen expected
he would live to reclaim the throne. Second, the country was divided between
two proud and stubborn races: the Normans and the Saxons. The ...
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