[split] Relying on external imagery

[Mark Knowles]

Having just noticed this discussion it does rather make me tear my hair out. The idea that the author didn't just make up their own way of drawings stars, but must have been part of a long tradition of drawings seems like a big assumption.

I no longer stand behind what I said back in 2016, when I was new to this whole thing. But what you write right now betrays an equal ignorance of medieval practice. They simply did not invent things.

And this way of drawing stars can be traced back at least to the Beatus manuscripts of the 10th century. Then to Hildegard, who relied heavily on the Beati. They really blur the line between flowers and heavenly bodies.

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It seems that this is a very natural way to draw stars.

When you say:

"They simply did not invent things."

Then I can only conclude that it is amazing that the wheel of history has moved forward at all.

I would say that medieval people like modern people were highly inventive, why make assumptions about what they were capable of or inclined towards that you wouldn't make of modern people.