Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

For the second quote, I was merely citing Wikipedia where the phrase "high medieval period" was surely meant to refer to the period from circa 1200 (which would include the early 13th century) until the year 1497 when depictions of the Sun and Moon with faces exploded.

The high medieval period is roughly 1000 - 1250.
The page is saying that the faces in the manuscript from around 1200 are very uncommon.

At least it is clear that this was a misunderstanding, and not intentional.

Oh, I now see what you were talking about. Like me, the author of that Wikipedia article may have been an elderly person who is unfamiliar with contemporary arbitrary classifications of medieval time periods. I just checked a 20th-century edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and can confirm that the word "high" makes no appearance in connection with the Middle Ages. Logically, the word "high" should relate to the highest numbers, ie. 1200-1500, so I did not notice any confusion. I guess somebody thought the term "middle middle ages" sounded a little awkward and decided on "high middle ages" instead. I was happy only using the terms "early" and "late".