Beyond 43N; 5E. Evidence and discussion

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I think the number and quality of parallels for the imagery in this manuscript that come from the eastern side of the Mediterranean - and eastwards of that - are such that it must take enormous will-power to ignore them and keep busy looking for things to support the  "Latin European Christian" storyline.   But then some people can.

I don't think ideas and imagery outside of central Europe or east of the Mediterranean are being ignored—I'm certainly not doing it—I think other people have other interests. R. Sale is interested in the pairing paradigm and heraldry—that doesn't mean he is ignoring you. Some are interested in astronomy and cosmology—they're not ignoring eastern influences, they usually mention the Arabic manuscripts. Others are specifically interested in computational attacks on the text. I doubt if they are ignoring eastern influences either—they're just busy with other things.


I am interested in plants and text, but the manuscript is long and detailed and there's so much to study in there that I haven't even LOOKED at all of the images yet, including some of the plants.

Let's keep to the facts and stop the constant insinuations that researchers are ignoring the things that interest you. That's their prerogative. Maybe they have limited time. Maybe they have more specialized interests. Maybe they don't feel they have the background to evaluate imagery from other cultures. Leave them alone to do what interests them and post what interests you without the constant finger pointing.

Thank you.