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'''''Ivanhoe: A Romance''''' is an 1819 [[Historical Fiction|historical novel]] by Sir [[Walter Scott]], set in the reign of King [[Richard the Lion Heart]] and largely concerning the long-smouldering antagonism between the [[People of Hair Color|Normans and Saxons]] in the centuries after the Norman Conquest -- an antagonism which, at that date, is highly [[Anachronism Stew|anachronistic]] (one might call it a sort of [[Hollywood History]]) and largely the product of Scott's teeming imagination. In the face of severe criticism by his own contemporaries on this and other historical inaccuracies, Scott himself admitted, "It is extremely probable that I may have confused the manners of two or three centuries," but [[MST3K Mantra|comforted himself]] that "errors of this kind will escape [[Viewers are Morons|the general class of readers]]." And indeed, despite the author's [[Author Tract|Whig history]] limitations and prejudices (which are [[Writer on Board|evident]]), ''Ivanhoe'' is a stirring and colourful tale, with plenty of action, lovable heroes and heroines and hissable villains, and a real feeling for the genuine -- if ''extremely [[Flanderization|exaggerated]]'' -- romance of [[The High Middle Ages]].