26-03-2026, 07:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-03-2026, 07:58 AM by Stefan Wirtz_2.)
(26-03-2026, 06:01 AM)oeesordy wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..]
In the real world where Truth is reality not a pretense like you suggest and flowers don't grow like that. I just don't think that someone who knows about the nature of flowers medicinally would portray a flower like that.
That‘s quite the point: even within accepted, proved and acknowledged medieval herbals are drawings which have little to do with „reality“, do not look like real plants, just are not drawn foto-realistic or naturalistic. You will find many plants that appear nearly abstract or symbolic — that may have said something to medieval readers, but keeps looking very strange for us today. So we can‘t recognize the most of it.