26-07-2019, 10:31 PM
(26-07-2019, 07:04 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why would anyone dechristianize Christian scenes in the most Christian time and place in history though?
I have no idea. None at all. There were still pockets of Pagans. The Basques were still Pagan. Some were so deeply tied to their religion than they fled their homes when the powers-that-be made efforts to convert them. The same happened with Christians-against-Christians in the Counter-Reformation...
... but it was largely a Christian society, so Christians had little to hide (other than non-Christian or "heretical" scientific thoughts).
I wondered for a while if it might be a Messianic or voluntarily-converted Jew, who might hide it from fellow Jews, but I really don't know.
I often reflect back on the comment the medieval doctor made to his daughter when she asked him why bother enciphering things and one of his responses was that it gave information more value (and more mystique).