01-02-2022, 06:48 PM
Thanks, Michelle. I agree that the gates are definitely the most obvious omission. But exactly this is the subject of the second post, which will be published this weekend. As will be demonstrated in that post, manuscript illustrations slide between depicting the gates as described in Revelation, and depicting something else instead. The latter category focuses on the standard interpretation of the gates, their meaning for the medieval audience.
The absence of literal gates is of course not the only issue, and there is much more going on. I don't think any attempt to explain the Rosettes foldout as just x or just y can ever be sufficient. It must be more than a straightforward illustration.
But these concepts are complex and, especially, foreign to the average modern reader. This is why we decided to pull out separate threads one at a time.
The absence of literal gates is of course not the only issue, and there is much more going on. I don't think any attempt to explain the Rosettes foldout as just x or just y can ever be sufficient. It must be more than a straightforward illustration.
But these concepts are complex and, especially, foreign to the average modern reader. This is why we decided to pull out separate threads one at a time.