Al igual que Cervantes, Scott debe haber recalado en varios libros de caballería, incluidos el Orlando Furioso y el Quijote para escribir el suyo ya que, aunque publicado en 1820 se ubica en la época medieval para contar la historia de este enfrentamiento entre normandos y sajones en la Inglaterra de la época de los templarios. Cada personaje cumple su función en la trama. Hasta el loco Wamba quien viene a ser un bufón del grupo de Cedric que viene a ser el contrapeso jocoso de la novela (es el primer bufón que me cae bien) y no deja de lanzar dardos a todos los personajes por más serios que sean.

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DOF Subsea UK, a subsidiary of DOF Subsea, has secured a decommissioning contract with HESS in the Ivanhoe/Rob Roy Field, North Sea. The project will last for approximately 21 days and is scheduled to start in Q3 2011. Del lado de las mujeres destaca la hermosa y orgullosa Lady Rowena (me gusta cómo suena su nombre jaja) que pertenece a la nobleza sajona y la judía Rebecca hija del codicioso y mendaz Isaac. Sir Walter Scott, fue el fundador de la novela histórica romántica, y es con "Ivanhoe" en donde el género se instala para siempre en la literatura. Este prolífico autor inglés posee una veintena de estas novelas y con cada una de ellas iba perfeccionándose, logrando con esto, ejercer una marcada influencia entre sus pares y los autores que quisieron seguir dicha influencia. I have decided to put down this book and not finish it 2/3 of the way in, the reason being that while it was interesting to read about the old times of knights, tournaments and great battles at castles, it wasn't in any way interesting enough for me to keep on reading. I feel like being this far in, I've already gotten out of the story what I possibly could, and I don't really care about how everything's going to end. This is an adventure story. Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight returned from the Crusades still loyal to Richard Plantagenet. It is filled with colorful figures, both fictional and historic, fair and foul: Richard the Lion-Hearted; the beautiful Jewess Rebecca; her father, Isaac; beloved and beautiful Rowena; Cedric the Saxon; Robin Hood and his Merry Men; the infamous Prince John; Knight Templar Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert; helpful hag Urfried; loyal manservant Gurth; and the simple jester Wamba.With a work this old there are always problematic parts. This one drips with antisemitic characters. While Scott feels for his Jew and his beautiful daughter and laments how despite their money, they could any time be robbed, expelled or worse, he lets his characters abuse and shame the Jews in pretty much every scene. They go on and on about how dirty and infidel they are and they don’t even want to touch them. I am sure in reality the Jews were way cleaner than most Christians…

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Scottish author Sir Walter Scott's two bestselling novels Rob Roy and Ivanhoe are bound together in this edition. Ivanhoe is a historical novel, a mix between fiction and reality, which fascinates the reader of any age and launches it into the past with incredible ease. If you read it, prepare for this effect. You'll find synopsis after synopsis here and elsewhere. But if you like adventure, heroism, romance, loyalty, betrayal...any or all of the above you won't go wrong here. Mr. Osbaldistone,” she said, “your own observation will enable you to verify the justice, or injustice, of Rashleigh’s suggestions concerning such individuals as Mr. Campbell and Mr. Morris. But, in slandering Scotland, he has borne false witness against a whole country; and I request you will allow no weight to his evidence.” “Perhaps,” I answered, “I may find it somewhat difficult to obey your injunction, Miss Vernon; for I must own I was bred up with no very favourable idea of our northern neighbours.” “Distrust that part of your education, sir,” she replied, “and let the daughter of a Scotchwoman pray you to respect the land which gave her parent birth, until your own observation has proved them to be unworthy of your good opinion. Preserve your hatred and contempt for dissimulation, baseness, and falsehood, wheresoever they are to be met with. You will find enough of all without leaving England.— Adieu, gentlemen, I wish you good evening.”The position of the Jews in England is fascinating too and two of them have an important part in the story. Regarded as less than animals on one level; on the other hand they were the bankers and so we couldn't do without them. El autor nos ilustra una Inglaterra del siglo XII que aún se encuentra muy dividida por la reciente conquista de la isla por los normandos. Guillermo el Conquistador (a quien conocía por haber leído textos de historia e incluso uno sobre la Batalla de Hastings) fue el que desde Francia conquistó a la Inglaterra gobernada por los sajones. Es así que estas dos razas conviven con un gran resentimiento por parte de los sajones.

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First things first: there is a TON of anti-Semitism. Scott portrays his Jewish characters very schizophrenically, alternating between sympathizing with them and depicting them stereotypically as grasping and money loving. There are scenes directly equivalent to The Merchant of Venice with Isaac of York trying to decide between his daughter and his money. Rebecca is depicted as virtuous, skilled, and possessed of wisdom, while her beauty makes her the desire of lecherous men. Still, she does not receive the affection that she desires from a particular English knight. That two centuries later we still have people who hate Jews and Muslims beggars belief.Sir Walter Scott was a pioneer of historical fiction. His works include Ivanhoe(one could call it the precursor to the more modern Robin Hood) and Rob Roy. An extremely successful and popular novelist of his time, he took a deep interest in insurance and was enthusiastic about the industry. During a time when insurance companies were often seen as unreliable and scam-like, Sir Scott lent his celebrity-stature to help build people’s trust in the business. He went a director of an insurance company in Scotland. No es la primera vez que me encuentro este tipo de desprecio literario en libros de autores clásicos. En una parte de esta novela se dice de ellos: "Ten presente que hablas de un judío, de un israelita, tan incapaz de soltar el oro que una vez ha tocado, como lo son las arenas del desierto de devolver el agua que ha derramado en ellas el viajero." Esa frase me remite a otra, bastante racista de la novela Tarás Bulba de Nikolai Gógol: "Lo primero que brilló ante los ojos del judío fueron los dos mil ducados de recompensa por la cabeza del cosaco; pero se avergonzó de su codicia y pugnó por reprimir dentro suyo esa eterna fijación en el oro, que habita enroscada como un gusano en el alma de todo judío." The plot takes place in England at the end of 1100. The Norman king Richard "Lionheart", just returned from a Crusade, was captured in Austria, with the complicity of his brother, the greedy Giovanni Senzaterra. Giovanni Senzaterra, does the functions of regent, but wants to definitively obtain the throne and thus favors the Norman side against the Saxon one. Ivanhoe, son of Cedric, is a Saxon, but his father disinherited him because Ivanhoe fought alongside Richard in the crusades and also because he fell in love with Rowena, a Saxon noble who Cedric wanted to marry Athelstane, descendant of the last Saxon king, so as to reinvigorate the Saxon race and contrast the Norman one. The attitudes toward Jews in the novel make one uncomfortable in the same way that you feel when reading The Merchant of Venice. It is obvious that Scott himself does not sanction this view of Jews, but even the characters who admire and are helped by Rebecca make comments regarding being defiled by her presence or touch. I constantly had to attempt to put myself into the time in question and remind myself that this is history and to have written it any other way would have been false.

Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Hamish Fields, Block 15/21, UK North The Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Hamish Fields, Block 15/21, UK North

El grupo de buenos de la historia está liderado por Ivanhoe que viene a ser un hijo despreciado en la sociedad sajona quien luego de acompañar con entusiasmo al rey Ricardo vuelve a limpiar su honor. Tiene la misteriosa ayuda del Caballero negro cuya identidad será algo que llama mucho en la trama y me resulta muy bien manejado. Cuando el hálito de un templario no ha ocasionado sino crueldad a los hombres y oprobio a las mujeres?" For instance, Ivanhoe and Rowena are childhood sweethearts, and you're supposed to root for them as a couple, but they are apart for most of the book, and you barely see them express their love for each other. There is, in fact, very little that happens in the span of the book that would lead anyone to think that Ivanhoe is better off with Rowena than with any other woman. And there IS another woman, Rebecca, in the book who through her actions seems a more deserving character than Rowena. There's another man as well, for Rowena, but the point is Rebecca is the one the reader would rather root for to win the heart of Ivanhoe. Rebecca actually, genuinely cares for Ivanhoe, not just in an emotional sense, partly out of gratitude for Ivanhoe's kind treatment of her father, but in a medical sense, when Ivanhoe gets mortally wounded in a tournament. She's the one who looks after him and with her exceptional healing skills helps him to get better. She's the one who generously funds him, too, using the jewelry she has inherited from her mother. Not only that, but when Rebecca needs saving, it's Ivanhoe alone who saves her. So Rebecca seems a more likely heroine than Rowena — at least in my eyes. The story revolves more around her than around Rowena. He is either fighting with his identity, face, thoughts/feelings utterly hidden behind his armour or lying injured. British writer Sir Walter Scott popularized and refined a genre of ballads and historical novels; his works include Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe (1819).

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His publishers persuaded him to allow further novels to be designated as ‘by the author of Waverley,’ and for this reason, some of his books were called the ‘Waverley Novels.’ Although he published biographies of Swift and Dryden and some history, as well as poems, his chief claim to distinction is his contribution to Romanticism and the historical novel. He hardly utters any sentences and those only in the last third of the book. He has two miniscule scenes with his beloved (?) Rowena, but actually they do not exchange a single sentence between them (at least not when Ivanhoe is openly himself vs disguised as some monk), which may be the oddest thing I ever came across in a book.