John Lauder, 2nd Lord Fountainhall (1646 1722) was a Scottish judge who opposed the Union of England and Scotland, and a perceptive observer of political affairs. His large collection of legal opinions and papers, particularly relating to the Privy Council of Scotland, is still consulted today. Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs, from 1680 till 1701 was edited in 1822 by Sir Walter Scott, and deals with the short reign of James II and accession of William and Mary. Insertions by an earlier owner of the manuscript give the text a more aggressively Jacobite flavour than Lauder in fact...
John Lauder, 2nd Lord Fountainhall (1646 1722) was a Scottish judge who opposed the Union of England and Scotland, and a perceptive observer of politi...
Walter Scott (1779 1858), President and Theological Tutor at Airedale College in Bradford, delivered a series of lectures on the occult at the Congregational Library, London, in 1841. This 1843 volume is a collection of Scott's lectures, in which he employs scriptural and testimonial evidence to support his claim that evil spirits exist. Scott describes the character and behaviour of evil spirits and the methods they employ to contact and influence humans; for example witchcraft, divination, possession and temptation. Scott draws on Jewish and ancient Egyptian literature, as well as accounts...
Walter Scott (1779 1858), President and Theological Tutor at Airedale College in Bradford, delivered a series of lectures on the occult at the Congreg...
Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) was born in Dublin and studied at the city's Trinity College. He gained his B.A. in 1686 before going to England where he took a Master's degree at Oxford in 1692. Subsequently, Swift lived between England and Ireland for a number of years. He moved permanently from England in 1714 after the Tory party he supported lost power. Back in Ireland as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he turned his talents to supporting Irish causes. During this period he wrote some of his best work, including Gulliver's Travels, the satirical masterpiece which has been...
Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) was born in Dublin and studied at the city's Trinity College. He gained his B.A. in 1686 before going to England where he t...
Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) was born in Dublin and studied at the city's Trinity College. He gained his B.A. in 1686 before going to England where he took a Master's degree at Oxford in 1692. Subsequently, Swift lived between England and Ireland for a number of years. He moved from England in 1714 after the Tory party he supported lost power. Back in Ireland as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he turned his talents to supporting Irish causes. During this period he wrote some of his best work, including Gulliver's Travels, the satirical masterpiece which has been continuously in print...
Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) was born in Dublin and studied at the city's Trinity College. He gained his B.A. in 1686 before going to England where he t...
The poems, sagas and ballads of early Germanic and Scandinavian societies were a growing field of study in the English-speaking world around the turn of the nineteenth century. A trio of Scotsmen the writer Sir Walter Scott (1771 1832), antiquarian Robert Jamieson (1772 1844) and literary scholar Henry William Weber (1783 1818) decided to contribute to this field by bringing together their work on 'romances' from the Old German, Danish, Swedish and Icelandic languages, claiming that these poems and tales 'offer a new and interesting subject of speculation to the English reader'. In this...
The poems, sagas and ballads of early Germanic and Scandinavian societies were a growing field of study in the English-speaking world around the turn ...
Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819, and is set in 12th-century England, and is an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed that Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel. (wikipedia.org)
Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819, and is set in 12th-century England, and is an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe i...
Quentin Durward es posiblemente la novela mas romantica de Walter Scott. Un noble frances llamado Quentin Durward recibe la mision de proteger la bella dama Isabel, con la que su tio, el viejo Lord Crawford, pretende casarse con la colaboracion politica del duque de Borgona. Isabelle, Condesa de Marcroy, no esta interesada en los esponsales y decide instalarse en Tours. Durante el viaje, su carruaje es asaltado por el melevolo William De la Marek, pero su paladin Durward llega para defenderla y el rey Luis XI la acoge bajo su proteccion. Tras multiples aventuras, el invencible espadachin y un...
Quentin Durward es posiblemente la novela mas romantica de Walter Scott. Un noble frances llamado Quentin Durward recibe la mision de proteger la bell...
