20-10-2019, 08:21 PM
(20-10-2019, 06:27 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.One should distinguish between those remarks made by Alain Touwaide that are in his field of specialisation, and those that are not clearly within. Other specialists have made observations in their own field and it is by combining the best of all worlds that one can improve one's understanding of the MS.Notwithstanding that, he speaks from a position of authority that is beyond us poor web-commentators. We should assume that anything he says, he says aware of his position of authority. Otherwise, how are we to take anything he says as being serious?
(20-10-2019, 06:27 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Alain is not really interested in the text, and his conclusion that the MS is not a 'serious medical MS' but like a parody of one, is based on the herbal illustrations. This is something that one has to take seriously in my opinion. The forensic dating should be left to those specialists, and the palaeography to others.
I'm afraid that doesn't really stack up. A man of such expertise would not make such a comment (forgery) without having examined the whole situation. He would be aware of the implications of such a declaration. If he has decided to bring the forgery argument into his presentation, it is either to dismiss it out of hand (which he didn't) or to leave the question open (which he did).
Certainly he hasn't declared himself "in or out" of the forgery argument, either way. But he has left the door open for future argument.