Ivanhoe: A Romance is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in late 1819 in three volumes. At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval England.Ivanhoe is that the story of 1 of the remaining Anglo-Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows...