Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

The tower on the left is a very tiny drawing and it has two ticks, like the one on the right, which is quite a bit bigger.

There is no way you (or any of us) can know for sure if the left tower is round or the roof is conical, and it would be very rare for two flags to protrude out of a pointed tower. More likely it is a smaller version of the one on the right, but no one can know for sure.

Even if they are, the illustration you are using of the burning of the Cathars is a later version and whoever drew it probably never saw the original towers and just made up some towers. This is very common in medieval illuminations. Look how many different versions there are of this event:

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Look at these towers. Each one has one flag and the arrangement of the towers is completely different from the VMS drawing:




You are imposing your desires on what you see rather than trying to figure out what it really is.

JP, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the VMS artist's memory nor for the realism of his or her artistic style. But a fortress tightly squeezed by seep slopes is clearly indicated and this fits Montségur perfectly, and, as I have repeatedly stated, there are pointers to Cathars in the VMS.

Cones appear to have been a popular architectural feature of that region of France and it seems logical that Montségur's tower (we know it had a tower from historical records) would have been conical in shape.