| The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing. |
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| This idealising tendency was shared by Britain and an Anglophilic America. |
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| The international craze for tartan, and for idealising a romanticised Highlands, was set off by the Ossian cycle, and further popularised by the works of Walter Scott. |
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| The idealising side of Furman's contruction exposes itself to the tu quoque retorts with which Putin and his aides now relish silencing criticism by the West. |
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