English Literature. 10(1). 16.11.2022. Topic: a historical novel "Ivanhoe" Study the following chapters: Walter Scott, Ivanhoe: A Romance (1819)0. [Chapter 1] After 1066: conflict and tensionFour generations had not sufficed to blend the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hostile races, one of which still felt the elation of triumph, while the other groaned under all the consequences of defeat. The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility, by the event of the battle of Hastings, and it had been used, as our histories assure us, with no moderate hand. The whole race of Saxon princes and nobles had been extirpated or disinherited, with few or no exceptions; nor were the numbers great who possessed land in the country of their fathers, even as proprietors of the second, or of yet inferior classes.1. [Chapter 1] Saxon vs Norman – language“Truly,” said Wamba, … leave the herd to t...