30-07-2016, 06:29 PM
Don,
Apparently I'm getting old and mumbly. Let me try to be more concise. In the Middle Ages heraldry was a science, a field of knowledge. I use heraldry as a data base to investigate and interpret the VMs illustrations. This is an ongoing investigation, even though there have been a series of surprising discoveries, one of which led to your interesting work with the visual history of nebuly lines, though perhaps there is still more to do. As there is in other areas as well.
Heraldry does not contain any proposed linguistic solution. Instead, VMs heraldry provides historical grounding. Historical grounding establishes a basis validated by historical fact. And historical fact is an external, independent reality. And this is in a manuscript where external, independent reality is clearly at a premium. When that basis is common to both author and reader, then communication can take place. Having a common reality (a common reality that is paired) hopefully restrains the reader from wandering off in all sorts of imagined interpretations.
Heraldry does make certain suggestions regarding a linguistic solution. And the investigation continues. I don't see an easy solution. If my heraldry investigation is not of interest to you, my apologies for mistaking your interest as genuine.
Apparently I'm getting old and mumbly. Let me try to be more concise. In the Middle Ages heraldry was a science, a field of knowledge. I use heraldry as a data base to investigate and interpret the VMs illustrations. This is an ongoing investigation, even though there have been a series of surprising discoveries, one of which led to your interesting work with the visual history of nebuly lines, though perhaps there is still more to do. As there is in other areas as well.
Heraldry does not contain any proposed linguistic solution. Instead, VMs heraldry provides historical grounding. Historical grounding establishes a basis validated by historical fact. And historical fact is an external, independent reality. And this is in a manuscript where external, independent reality is clearly at a premium. When that basis is common to both author and reader, then communication can take place. Having a common reality (a common reality that is paired) hopefully restrains the reader from wandering off in all sorts of imagined interpretations.
Heraldry does make certain suggestions regarding a linguistic solution. And the investigation continues. I don't see an easy solution. If my heraldry investigation is not of interest to you, my apologies for mistaking your interest as genuine.