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This scene painted in 1900 celebrated a romantic view of courtly love and knighthood. The young woman ties her favor around the departing knight's arm as a pledge of love and support. Viewers of the painting at the Royal Academy would have felt an immediate connection to the soldiers going to fight in the Boer War. In 2019 this painting appears on the pages of Stormfront and other alt-right websites as evidence of the Middle Ages as a white nation. They identify with a mythical medieval past in which culture centered on Christianity, family and a social order where everyone happily fulfilled their role from birth.