> Much material is drawn from the 19th century, when the Romantic movement created its own version of the Middle Ages Author confuses the Romantic movement wit

> Much material is drawn from the 19th century, when the Romantic movement created its own version of the Middle Ages Author confuses the Romantic movement with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Romantic movement was proto-modernist and sought to break with the past. One of the foundational works of English romanticism, "Childe Harold's Progress" by Byron, was specifically an ironic takedown of sentimental medievalist attitudes popular at the time, and attempted to illustrate the inadequacy of such attitudes in dealing with the challenges of the present day.