Ivanh tells the heroic story of Richard the Lion Heart, who returned home after the Crusade failed, and who almost single-handedly flattened the domestic rebellion and regained the throne with only a few old generals around him. It reflects and confirms the distinctive chivalry in Scott's historical novels.

Lili Zhang. Bright Knight Color in Scott's Historical Novels: a Case Study of Evangel. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2019) Vol. 1 Issue 10: 141-145. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2019.011018.

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