I don't care whether it was a family or monks or a scriptorium... but I do care about there being good arguments in whatever direction the discussion takes.
Many businesses in the Middle Ages were very strongly family oriented. It's how they retained their guild memberships and how they kept their trade secrets.
Merchant families wrote textbooks for their own children, teaching them math, navigation, etc. These books were full of the kinds of problems you see in modern math books.
Maybe the VMS was created for some of the same reasons, even if it was for a different set of subjects.
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This also touches upon the subject of sources. How many manuscripts do we assume the VM creators had access to? Which of the echos we see are based on imagery in other works? If it was made within a family, how rich were they to possess various illuminated manuscripts?
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You don't have to own them all yourself. You just have to be rich enough to have rich friends or access to places only rich people could go. My friends and I swap books all the time. They don't cost what they cost in the middle ages (a year's wages for a working person, sometimes more), but the discrepancy in income between landowners and others was also very great.
Many businesses in the Middle Ages were very strongly family oriented. It's how they retained their guild memberships and how they kept their trade secrets.
Merchant families wrote textbooks for their own children, teaching them math, navigation, etc. These books were full of the kinds of problems you see in modern math books.
Maybe the VMS was created for some of the same reasons, even if it was for a different set of subjects.
(09-05-2020, 05:38 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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This also touches upon the subject of sources. How many manuscripts do we assume the VM creators had access to? Which of the echos we see are based on imagery in other works? If it was made within a family, how rich were they to possess various illuminated manuscripts?
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You don't have to own them all yourself. You just have to be rich enough to have rich friends or access to places only rich people could go. My friends and I swap books all the time. They don't cost what they cost in the middle ages (a year's wages for a working person, sometimes more), but the discrepancy in income between landowners and others was also very great.