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Lucas de Beaumanoir is the Grand Master of the Templar Order to which Albert de Malvoisin and Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert belong. Though he is an old man, the hardness brought to his features by years of asceticism and warmongering cannot hide his inherent nobility and authority. Unlike most others in his Order, he scrupulously follows its commandments both as a knight and a monk; the sinfulness, greed, and pride of men like Albert and Sir Brian shocks and horrifies him. Zealous in his hatred and persecution of groups whom medieval Christianity branded as enemies—Jewish people and Muslim people—he initiates and presides over Rebecca’s witchcraft trial. Yet, he is a man of principles: when she demands judicial combat, he allows it, and when during that fight God seems to strike Sir Brian, he accepts the result as proof of her innocence and frees her.
Lucas de Beaumanoir Quotes in Ivanhoe
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Volume 3, Chapter 13
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It was a scene of bustle and life, as if the whole vicinage had poured forth its inhabitants to a village wake, or rural feast. But the evident desire to look on blood and death, is not peculiar to these dark ages; though in the gladiatorial exercise of single combat and general tourney, they were habituated to the blood spectacle of brave men falling by each other’s hands. Even in our own days, when morals are better understood, an execution, a bruising match between two professors, a riot, or a meeting of radical reformers, collects at considerable hazard to themselves an immense crowd of spectators, otherwise little interested, excepting to see how matters are to be conducted, and whether the heroes of the day are, in the heroic language of insurgent tailors, flints or dunghills.
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Lucas de Beaumanoir Quotes in Ivanhoe
The Ivanhoe quotes below are all either spoken by Lucas de Beaumanoir or refer to Lucas de Beaumanoir. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 3, Chapter 13
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It was a scene of bustle and life, as if the whole vicinage had poured forth its inhabitants to a village wake, or rural feast. But the evident desire to look on blood and death, is not peculiar to these dark ages; though in the gladiatorial exercise of single combat and general tourney, they were habituated to the blood spectacle of brave men falling by each other’s hands. Even in our own days, when morals are better understood, an execution, a bruising match between two professors, a riot, or a meeting of radical reformers, collects at considerable hazard to themselves an immense crowd of spectators, otherwise little interested, excepting to see how matters are to be conducted, and whether the heroes of the day are, in the heroic language of insurgent tailors, flints or dunghills.
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