01-03-2019, 03:07 AM
(28-02-2019, 11:57 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Morten, this is BS. You are putting words in my mouth that I have never spoken.
I'm elated to find out that I was wrong about you and that you are open to a wider range of possibilities. My marginalia theory does not require an American origin for the VMS so, though I argue against a purely European history for the VMS, I do not rule out such a possibility.
On the astrology pages, while you were studying the zodiac symbols, I was busy looking at the circles of people surrounding those symbols. On a couple of them I saw equal numbers of men and women conducting a religious or administrative meeting. If today you were to see an equal number of men and women in a business meeting, what country would you rule out for the location of that meeting? Answer: Saudi Arabia. In medieval times, regions under Catholic control were the Saudi Arabia of Europe. Under Catholicism, women had abysmal status and were often burned as witches. Only in a heretic sect called Catharism, which effectively became extinct in the 13th century, did men and women have equal rights.
On the Rosettes folio, we see the depiction of a mountaintop fortress that no one has been able to identify. A famous mountaintop fortress that was completely dismantled (not even the ruins were allowed to remain) was Montségur, the last stronghold of the Cathars. Meanwhile, in the swamps section, we see a Cathar baptismal ceremony and a gal holding a medieval instrument that was used to scrape clean the furry side of animal hides. The Cathars reportedly taught reading, writing, and parchment-making to their converts.
This is only the beginning of the evidence that causes me to dispute Wikipedia's claim (made in the second sentence of its VMS article) that "it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance." You do not need to be an art expert to surmise that the VMS does not display artwork in the style of Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
JP, in return, please feel free to lay out some of your principal arguments for me to consider.