bi3mw > 07-11-2021, 09:19 PM
R. Sale > 08-11-2021, 12:29 AM
bi3mw > 08-11-2021, 03:26 PM
(08-11-2021, 12:29 AM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've long felt that the VMs 'green' bathers had a certain similarity to the bathing Muses in Pizan's 'Book of the Queen'.
Antonio García Jiménez > 08-11-2021, 04:33 PM
Koen G > 08-11-2021, 05:14 PM
(08-11-2021, 04:33 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In our century I don't think anyone dares question this idea that the VMS is a work of women.
bi3mw > 08-11-2021, 05:24 PM
(08-11-2021, 04:33 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In our century I don't think anyone dares question this idea that the VMS is a work of women
(08-11-2021, 04:33 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Without ruling it out entirely, I think the likelihood that the VM is a book written by women for women is minimal. This idea, naturally promoted today by women,...
Quote:... I remain completely and utterly unconvinced that the Voynich was written by a woman or group of women. If anything, l lean the opposite way - that the Voynich was written and illustrated by men who produced it as a reflection of their place of societal power over women...
Mark Knowles > 08-11-2021, 05:59 PM
(06-11-2021, 01:33 PM)MichelleL11 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-11-2021, 11:54 AM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Here is a blog post by Monica Valentinelli titled "Why I Believe the Voynich Manuscript was Created by a Woman". As far as can be seen, she bases her thesis on social circumstances in the Italian Renaissance (?).
radapox > 08-11-2021, 06:28 PM
(08-11-2021, 05:14 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-11-2021, 04:33 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In our century I don't think anyone dares question this idea that the VMS is a work of women.What? I've been questioning this idea this entire thread. It is possible, but not necessarily more likely than female involvement in any other medieval work.
bi3mw > 08-11-2021, 06:50 PM
(08-11-2021, 05:59 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.However setting my own authorship theory aside I suppose one can ask the question as to what percentage of manuscripts from that time were written by women?