Author | Walter Scott |
---|---|
Language | English, Lowland Scots |
Series | Waverley novels |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Archibald Constable, and John Ballantyne (Edinburgh); Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London) |
Publication date | 23 March 1820[1] |
Publication place | Scotland |
Media type | |
Pages | 354 (Edinburgh Edition, 2000) |
Preceded by | Ivanhoe |
Followed by | The Abbot |
Text | The Monastery at Wikisource |
The Monastery: a Romance (1820) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve of the Scottish Reformation, it is centred on Melrose Abbey.