Old Mortality

Sir Walter Scott's Old Mortality (1816), the second volume in his celebrated Tales of My Landlord series, is a formidable historical novel that dramatizes the turbulent period of Scottish history following the Restoration of Charles II, focusing in particular on the Covenanter uprisings in the late 17th century. Set principally in the 1670s, the novel immerses the reader in a richly textured narrative that probes the intersecting dynamics of political loyalty, religious extremism, and perso...