31-07-2020, 05:35 PM
(31-07-2020, 05:22 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Consider Hildegard of Bingen to represent a type of motivation.
There are books about famous persons written by one of their followers, another source of motivation.
Have you looked through the KBR library? What are the motivations for all those books?
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Christine de Pizan produced a number of books and she had her motivations. Could those motivations be recognized if we had only one of her books, and we were unable to read it?
The motivation behind the VMs is difficult to determine. First because the functional level of the VMs was hidden behind a facade. And second because the functional level was built on traditional elements that were not recognized by many prior research efforts. Perhaps a motivation can be determined if the text could be read.
Yes, it is very hard to determine motivations. I wanted to push back on the idea that the motivations of the author were necessarily very practical. Indeed another idea is that it was written for spiritual reasons. This also would fit the idea that the author may not have wanted to share the manuscript with others, in a very secretive manner.