16-05-2016, 01:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-05-2016, 03:15 AM by -JKP-.
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Holy Roman Empire c. 1350:
![[Image: empire1350.gif]](http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/germany/empire1350.gif)
And the same general idea in more detail for 1360:
![[Image: CentralEurope1360.jpg]](https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/7N9WwxQFksNm84r5uyq5uA--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9ODg4O3E9OTU7dz0xMTY0/http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/images/maps/CentralEurope1360.jpg)
David, I would have given you this link earlier, but I lost track of where it was and wasn't sure I could find it again. I finally relocated it. This is probably the best in terms of showing detail:
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There are lots of "what ifs" where the VMS is concerned, but let's say it was created at approximately 1425 and let's say whoever did it was around 35 years of age, old enough to have knowledge of the world, young enough to still be alive and to have eyes that could see small details. That means the author may have been born around 1390 and may have been exposed to lingering traces of 14th-century culture and politics. If the VMS was created early in the radiocarbon-dated period (c. 1403), it would push the author's childhood back to the third quarter 14th, and things were quite different then.
And the same general idea in more detail for 1360:
David, I would have given you this link earlier, but I lost track of where it was and wasn't sure I could find it again. I finally relocated it. This is probably the best in terms of showing detail:
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There are lots of "what ifs" where the VMS is concerned, but let's say it was created at approximately 1425 and let's say whoever did it was around 35 years of age, old enough to have knowledge of the world, young enough to still be alive and to have eyes that could see small details. That means the author may have been born around 1390 and may have been exposed to lingering traces of 14th-century culture and politics. If the VMS was created early in the radiocarbon-dated period (c. 1403), it would push the author's childhood back to the third quarter 14th, and things were quite different then.