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''The Monastery: a Romance'' is an 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott. It's one of the ''Waverley'' novels and is set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation.
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''The Monastery: a Romance'' is an 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott. It's one of the ''Waverley'' novels and is set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation.
Reformation. A sequel, ''The Abbot'', was published later in 1820.
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''The Monastery: a Romance'' is an 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott. It's one of the ''Waverley'' novels and is set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation. Two brothers, tenants of the title monastery, fall in love with the same woman, a dispossessed noble, while the old order crumbles around them.
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''The Monastery: a Romance'' is an 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott. It's one of the ''Waverley'' novels and is set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation. Reformation.
Two brothers, tenants of the title monastery, fall in love with the same woman, a dispossessed noble, while the old order crumbles around them.
Two brothers, tenants of the title monastery, fall in love with the same woman, a dispossessed noble, while the old order crumbles around them.
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''The Monastery: a Romance'' is an 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott. It's one of the ''Waverley'' novels and is set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation. ITwo brothers, tenants of the title monastery, fall in love with the same woman, a dispossessed noble, while the old order crumbles around them.
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''The Monastery: a Romance'' is an 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott. It's one of the ''Waverley'' novels and is set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation. ITwo Two brothers, tenants of the title monastery, fall in love with the same woman, a dispossessed noble, while the old order crumbles around them.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prior Eustace and Henry Warden were fellow students and close friends before ending up on opposite sides of the religious divide.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prior Eustace and Henry Warden were fellow students and close friends before ending up on opposite sides of the religious divide.divide.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Earl of Moray (though he did not in fact hold the title until 1561); the Earl of Morton.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Queen's half-brother Lord James Stewart, anachronistically already Earl of Moray (though he did not in fact hold Moray, turns up at the title until 1561); end, accompanied by the equally real Earl of Morton.
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An 1820 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/WalterScott, set on the Scottish Borders on the eve of the Reformation.
Reformation. Two brothers, tenants of the titular monastery, fall in love with the same woman, a dispossessed noble, while the old order crumbles around them.
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* FakeAristocrat: DownplayedTrope. [[spoiler:Sir Piercie]] really is [[spoiler:a knight, and an earl's cousin]] on his mother's side... but his father secretly came of much humbler stock.
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* FakeAristocrat: DownplayedTrope. [[spoiler:Sir Piercie]] really is [[spoiler:a knight, and an earl's cousin]] on his mother's side... knight]], but his father secretly came of much humbler stock.relationship to [[spoiler:the Percy family]] is illegitimate, and his grandfather was a tailor.
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* DistressedDude: Sir Piercie after he's accused of murder.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Or rather religious. Scott's eagerness to assert the obvious superiority of Protestantism sits very oddly with his desire to be fair to individual Catholics: he constantly presents Catholicism as a faith only knaves and fools could follow while showing us Catholic characters who are clearly neither.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Earl of Moray (though he did not in fact hold the title until 1561).
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* SweetPollyOliver: Mysie dons Sir Piercie's clothes the second time she [[spoiler:rescues him]].
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* UptownGirl: Mary, a baron's daughter (though dispossessed), is this to Halbert (and to Edward's UnrequitedLove), the Glendinnings being commoners.
** A far wider gulf appears to exist between the thoroughly aristocratic Sir Piercie and miller's daughter Mysie; however, [[spoiler:Sir Piercie's pedigree turns out to be a little less impressive than claimed]].
** A far wider gulf appears to exist between the thoroughly aristocratic Sir Piercie and miller's daughter Mysie; however, [[spoiler:Sir Piercie's pedigree turns out to be a little less impressive than claimed]].
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* FakeAristocrat: DownplayedTrope. [[spoiler:Sir Piercie]] really is [[spoiler:a knight, and an earl's cousin]] on his mother's side... but his father secretly came of much humbler stock.
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* SwordFight: Halbert and Sir Piercie fight a duel that ends with both parties being wrongly thought dead (by different people).
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* SwordFight: Halbert and Sir Piercie fight a duel that ends with both parties being wrongly thought dead (by different people).people).
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prior Eustace and Henry Warden were fellow students and close friends before ending up on opposite sides of the religious divide.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Prior Eustace and Henry Warden were fellow students and close friends before ending up on opposite sides of the religious divide.
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* BettyAndVeronica: The Glendinning brothers to Mary (Edward is Betty, Halbert is Veronica).
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* SiblingTriangle: Both Glendinning brothers love Mary Avenel.
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* BlessedWithSuck: The White Lady magically heals [[spoiler:Sir Piercie]]... with the result that nobody believes he was wounded in the first place and he gets charged with [[spoiler:murdering the missing Halbert]].
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* PassiveRescue: [[spoiler:Mysie]] sneaking [[spoiler:Sir Piercie]] out of Glendearg Tower.
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* FictionalProvince: The abbey of Kennaquhair ("Know-not-where") and its lands.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Kennaquhair is a FictionalCounterpart to Melrose.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Earl of Moray (though he did not in fact hold the title until 1561).
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Sir Piercie never uses one word where a dozen will do.
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* NotQuiteDead: Sir Piercie after Halbert runs him through.
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* RiddleForTheAges: What exactly is the White Lady? A fairy, a ghost, something else?
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* RiddleForTheAges: What exactly is the White Lady? A fairy, a ghost, something else?even a kind of angel?
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The story apparently takes place around 1559/60, but the 1570 excommunication of Elizabeth I has apparently already happened, and Sir Piercie is an obsessive fan of John Lyly's ''Euphues'' (published in 1578).
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The story apparently takes seems to take place around 1559/60, but the 1570 excommunication of Elizabeth I has apparently already happened, and Sir Piercie is an obsessive fan of John Lyly's ''Euphues'' (published in 1578).
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* BraveScot: Halbert is physically fearless, while Julian snd Christie display a certain amount of VillainousValour.
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* RhymesOnADime: The White Lady speaks only in rhyme.
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* SupernaturalAid: The White Lady provides this to several characters.
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* GoodShepherd: The Protestant hedge-preacher Henry Warden is fatherly and quietly heroic.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: When it looks as if [[spoiler:Sir Piercie has killed Halbert]], it's gentle, mild-mannered Edward who demands blood vengeance and is ready to exact it at risk of his own life.
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* EvilUncle: Julian Avenel, a brutal Border reiver, has stolen his niece Mary's inheritance.
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The story apparently takes place around 1559/60, but the 1570 excommunication of Elizabeth I has apparently already happened, and Sir Piercie is an obsessive fan of John Lyly's ''Euphues'' (published in 1578).
* BeleagueredBoss: The Abbot really could do without the many responsibilities of his position.
* CorruptChurch: A mild example - the Abbot is worldly and lazy and fond of creature comforts, but he's still a fairly sympathetic character.
* TheDandy: Sir Piercie is very serious about fashion.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Sir Piercie Shafton is a cousin to the Earl of Northumberland.
* IllegalReligion: Although Catholic power is clearly in its final days, Protestantism is still technically this.
* SiblingYinYang: HotBlooded Halbert Glendinning contrasts with his quiet, studious brother Edward.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Sir Piercie never uses one word where a dozen will do.
* WickedUncle: Julian Avenel, a brutal Border reiver, has stolen his niece Mary's inheritance.
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The story apparently takes place around 1559/60, but the 1570 excommunication of Elizabeth I has apparently already happened, and Sir Piercie is an obsessive fan of John Lyly's ''Euphues'' (published in 1578).
* BeleagueredBoss: The Abbot really could do without the many responsibilities of his position.
* CorruptChurch: A mild example - the Abbot is worldly and lazy and fond of creature comforts, but he's still a fairly sympathetic character.
* TheDandy: Sir Piercie is very serious about fashion.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Sir Piercie Shafton is a cousin to the Earl of Northumberland.
* IllegalReligion: Although Catholic power is clearly in its final days, Protestantism is still technically this.
* SiblingYinYang: HotBlooded Halbert Glendinning contrasts with his quiet, studious brother Edward.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Sir Piercie never uses one word where a dozen will do.
* WickedUncle: Julian Avenel, a brutal Border reiver, has stolen his niece Mary's inheritance.
