A Legend of the Wars of Montrose

A Legend of the Wars of Montrose
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780231105705

Yet there is in Dugald Dalgetty's professional ethic, his blundering Latin, his loving care of his horse, and his own self-absorption, more genuine humanity than in the political and religious principles of Royalists and Covenanters alike. And the picture which emerges is not of violence imported into Scotland from Germany but of a country destroyed by uncompromising religious hatred, political bigotry, tribal feud and personal enmity.