<b>Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott</b>&nbsp;<i><b>Ivanhoe: A Romance</b></i>&nbsp;(/'a?v?n?ho?/) by&nbsp;Walter Scott&nbsp;is a&nbsp;historical novel&nbsp;published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the&nbsp;Waverley novels.<br /><br />At the time it was written, the novel represented a shift by Scott away from writing novels set in&nbsp;Scotland&nbsp;in the fairly recent past to&nbsp;England in the Middle Ages.&nbsp;<i>Ivanhoe</i>&nbsp;proved to be one of the best-known and most influential of Scott&#39;s novels.<br /><br />Set in 12th-century England, with colourful descriptions of a&nbsp;tournament, outlaws, a&nbsp;witch trial, and divisions between&nbsp;Jews&nbsp;and&nbsp;Christians,&nbsp;<i>Ivanhoe</i>&nbsp;is credited for increased interest in&nbsp;chivalric romance&nbsp;and&nbsp;medievalism.<br /><br />John Henry Newman&nbsp;claimed that Scott &quot;had first turned men&#39;s minds in the direction of the Middle Ages&quot;, while&nbsp;Thomas Carlyle&nbsp;and&nbsp;John Ruskin&nbsp;likewise asserted Scott&#39;s great influence upon the revival of interest in the medieval period, primarily based upon the publication of the novel&nbsp;<i>Ivanhoe</i>. Moreover,&nbsp;<i>Ivanhoe</i>&nbsp;much influenced popular perceptions of&nbsp;Richard the Lionheart,&nbsp;King John, and&nbsp;Robin Hood.