(24-09-2020, 08:59 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
...It seems a stretch for a number of very different and disparate things to be meaningfully and usefully described as "wet", "dry", "hot" and "cold".
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Maybe to modern thinking, but wet/dry hot/cold was absolutely integral to medieval thinking. EVERYTHING was classified this way. And not just wet/dry hot/cold, but sometimes also c 3, w 2 (cold to the 3rd degree, wet to the 2nd degree). Galen and Aristotle had enormous influence over medieval ways of perceiving the properties of things.
The same is true for good and bad. Every day of the year was classified as good or bad, according to their interpretation of the influence of the stars, and manuscripts have lists and lists of good and bad days.