03-07-2017, 10:51 AM
No religious meaning? What about specific religious usage and /or symbolic meaning ?
For example bread is used by Christians to represent the body of Christ.
Finding a picture of bread in a manuscript could point to that specifically, but also you can write that a bread has no religious meaning because it is a bread.
Both arguments are true.
But within the particular context of the manuscript you could then make arguments that the bread is meant as reference to the Body of Christ.
It means that if you can back-trace a specific image to a location or religion, you can say: it is "commonly used by/at".
This is also true for the Sun and Moon images. An Arabic Sun is not like a French sun in manuscripts around in the 15th century.
For example bread is used by Christians to represent the body of Christ.
Finding a picture of bread in a manuscript could point to that specifically, but also you can write that a bread has no religious meaning because it is a bread.
Both arguments are true.
But within the particular context of the manuscript you could then make arguments that the bread is meant as reference to the Body of Christ.
It means that if you can back-trace a specific image to a location or religion, you can say: it is "commonly used by/at".
This is also true for the Sun and Moon images. An Arabic Sun is not like a French sun in manuscripts around in the 15th century.