Nineteenth-century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe. This work argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that rad... » 

Nineteenth-century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe. This work argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. «