13-02-2025, 09:15 AM
(12-02-2025, 03:00 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The current paradigm for VM imagery research is this: assume that everything is intentional and meaningful, and that this meaning can be recovered through speculation.
This approach, to which I also contributed, is not likely to ever lead to any broadly shared insights or consensus.
Can we say that any approach wrong in a situation where we do not know much anything about the VMS? There is a lot of analysis and data, contradictory and not, but we do not know what they actually mean? IMO, what is left is speculation. The whole VMS is a speculation. It is difficult to anyone say what is meaningful in the MS and what is not, so all we can do is try to find meaning, fail and succeed. I agree that many details seem to be unintentional and without meaning, but that is just one view - I do not know much of anything about medieval symbolism. While pursuing to resolve a mystery, one does not build consensus, but insights which then may become a consensus.