15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Pierre Dumont Himself]

I think it might. But since he also studies the "inhabited landscape", you should also tell him wer're trying to understand the conditions in which the manuscript might have been created. For instance, could the literate sheep-raising community that produced the manuscript survive unmolested for a couple of decades in the early 15th century Piemonte? There were so many civil wars, foreign interventions, peasant rebellions, etc. that even small towns and some villages acquired strong defensive fortifications. One contemporary document I came across said that "every person was killed and every building ourtside the walls of X town was razed to the ground", and this seems to have been a relatively common occurrence.