SIR WALTER SCOTT WAS INTRIGUED WITH THE IDEA OF WRITING HISTORICAL NOVELS.HE PLACED HIS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IN€TUAL HISTORICAL
EVENTS( THE CRUSADES AND THE TOURNAMENTS AT ASHBY) ALONGSIDE ACTUAL PEOPLE IN HISTORY( RICHARD THE LION HEARTED, PRINCE JOHN AND ROBINHOOD). WHILE HIS NOVELS WERE ALL VERY SUCCESSFUL, 'IVANHOE' BECAME HIS MOST POPULAR. THESE HISTORICAL NOVELS WERE CONSIDERED A TRIVIAL FORM OF LITRATURE AT THAT TIME. WHILE THE GREAT SAXON( ENLISHMEN) KNIGHT AND SON OF CEDRIC OF ROTHERWOOD, WAS DISINHERITED BY HIS FATHER FOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE FAIR PPRINCESS ROWENA AND FORGOING TO THE CRUSADES WITH KING RICHARD THE LION HEARTED, HE MUST FIGHT FOR HIS NAME, HIS RIGHTS AND THE WOMAN HE LOVES AGAINST THE CRUEL NORMAN( NOBLE) KNIGHTS- BOIS DE GUILBERT AND DE BRACY. FOR WALTER SCOTT'S GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGLISH LITERATURE HE STILL REMAINS IN THE HEART OF ALL LITERATURE LOVERS.