I'm planning a long overdue video on stacking patterns in another section, so I'm not going to discuss that yet. I haven't thought about it in the plants though.
Regarding autism, I agree of course that it has always existed. However, I am always cautious when people project it onto the Middle Ages. I think we underestimate how vastly different their world was from ours.
Apart from that, I wonder if outsider art could exist as a concept in the Middle Ages at all. Our society offers a place for it, but that mustn't always have been the case in the past. Someone with autism and the people around them also wouldn't have had the insights and "mental vocabulary" to see what's going on.
Whatever the case may be, we'd be extremely deep into the realm of speculation. Opposed to the idea of a single unusual mind is the increasing certainty that more than one person made the MS.
I'll split these posts into a new thread tomorrow. I assume your views will be shared by others.
Regarding autism, I agree of course that it has always existed. However, I am always cautious when people project it onto the Middle Ages. I think we underestimate how vastly different their world was from ours.
Apart from that, I wonder if outsider art could exist as a concept in the Middle Ages at all. Our society offers a place for it, but that mustn't always have been the case in the past. Someone with autism and the people around them also wouldn't have had the insights and "mental vocabulary" to see what's going on.
Whatever the case may be, we'd be extremely deep into the realm of speculation. Opposed to the idea of a single unusual mind is the increasing certainty that more than one person made the MS.
I'll split these posts into a new thread tomorrow. I assume your views will be shared by others.