16-01-2021, 09:55 PM
I fail to see the point of this scattergun approach. Lots of things happened in Western Europe. Some things had repercussions throughout Europe for all classes, others just for the elites and the importance of other events would only become apparent later.
The Western Papal Schism is a fairly important thing that most people would have heard of at the time. There is no sign of papal infighting in the book.
You have the very beginning of the Protestant Reformation starting to appear throughout the century.
The Hundred Years War racked much of western Europe for the first half of the century as England and France dragged their periphery kingdoms into battle.
The mini crusades to the Iberian Peninsula and the rise of the Spanish kingdoms that would coalesce into the mid-century Kingdom of Spain (along the way, lots of exciting things such as the conquest of the Canary Isles).
I don't know. The Polish Wars and the collapse of the Teutonic knights?
Joan of Arc?
I can't really think of anything else at the moment. But I can't think of any imagery that would appear to be linked to obviously contemporary issues in the Voynich. Quite the contrary, the imagery appears to be based upon the previous century, even if some of the design elements are 15the century (costume, archer, etc).
The Western Papal Schism is a fairly important thing that most people would have heard of at the time. There is no sign of papal infighting in the book.
You have the very beginning of the Protestant Reformation starting to appear throughout the century.
The Hundred Years War racked much of western Europe for the first half of the century as England and France dragged their periphery kingdoms into battle.
The mini crusades to the Iberian Peninsula and the rise of the Spanish kingdoms that would coalesce into the mid-century Kingdom of Spain (along the way, lots of exciting things such as the conquest of the Canary Isles).
I don't know. The Polish Wars and the collapse of the Teutonic knights?
Joan of Arc?
I can't really think of anything else at the moment. But I can't think of any imagery that would appear to be linked to obviously contemporary issues in the Voynich. Quite the contrary, the imagery appears to be based upon the previous century, even if some of the design elements are 15the century (costume, archer, etc).