20-06-2021, 06:10 PM
(20-06-2021, 05:07 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The specific / generic dichotomy is problematic because there are examples of both. Generic buildings, cities, etc. are fairly common. Few European artists of the Middle Ages would have had an accurate picture of Constantinople or Jerusalem, let alone Troy. Specifics need to be proven and that is a great difficulty. The devil is in the details and not all examples are equally devious. Places are difficult, either known or nearly impossible to identify.Constantinople and Jerusalem are real places. However the suggestion in some theories such as the one described in this article is that the buildings do not correspond to any real places. Do you know of any examples of documents of the period which contain many different distinct buildings with specific details such as we see on the rosettes page that have no real meaning or connection to real places?