The medievalisation movement was a part and parcels of romanticism and a played an important part in bringing about the romantic revival.

For Coleridge the middle Ages had a special appeal, for it was an age of magic and superstition. Coleridge’s greatest contribution to the Romantic Movement is the recreation of the medieval atmosphere of wonder and mystery, “of women wailing for their demon lovers”, or forlorn maidens praying for their absent ones.