Morten St George Theory

[-JKP-]

If you want to get a feeling for how they thought in the medieval period (or rather, how differently from us they thought), read some of MarcoP's translations of remedies. They are entertaining and also quite enlightening in terms of revealing the medieval thought process.

Thanks JP. I'll take a look if I get the chance. I have in fact read a vast amount of Cabala literature from medieval times. One thing that impressed me is how much their mentality was so completed dominated by religion. Though it is hard to detect, I think there has to be a lot of religion in the VMS as well.

Many of the more scientifically oriented manuscripts of the Middle Ages don't have any references whatsoever to organized religion. They do often assume that God left clues in the way the universe was organized (like making the shape of the plant signal which part of the body it was supposed to cure). These were believed to be "messages" for the people studying natural phenomena, but this is a bit different from religious icons, practices, and literature.