Pecularities of Walter Scott's medievalism

The article concerns some peculiarities of Walter Scott's medievalism. His novels on Middle Ages reflect his irony towards fiction idealization of medieval knighthood. Scott's irony is not mostly expressed verbally, but through situations his heroes and heroines happen to be in. Scott suggests to distinguish his novels on Middle Ages, based on historical knowledge of his time, from medieval romances on chivalry, based on writers' fancy and fan­tasy. He consecutively destroys the main myths on ideal knights and espe­cially the nature of their "supreme" love to their ladies.