bi3mw > 14-12-2021, 09:34 PM
R. Sale > 14-12-2021, 09:54 PM
bi3mw > 15-12-2021, 02:00 PM
Quote:It was a huge effort to buy the parchment and prepare it, to procure ink and colors, to write the text in the small, beautiful - though largely illegible to us today - script, to draw the pictures and color them.
Quote:It is a secret script, which must be deciphered. This is partially successful, but without being able to read a coherent content.
Quote:It is a book written by bastards for bastards, that is, illegitimate offspring begotten by nobles.
Quote:The authors were probably a group from the growing class of bastards.
Quote:We know bathing scenes from the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Baths are always depicted with people talking, eating and drinking.
davidjackson > 15-12-2021, 07:34 PM
bi3mw > 16-12-2021, 05:41 PM
Quote:There were at least four different categories of illegitimate children in medieval law. A manzer, a term with Hebrew roots, was a child born to a prostitute or sometimes to an incestuous union, that is a child whose parents' relationship was considered morally wrong. A nothus, a word with Greek roots, was the child of a married woman due to an adulterous affair, also morally wrong. A spurius was the child of a couple who could not have been married, such as a citizen and a non-citizen (in those cities that regulated who citizens could marry), or a well-born man and a slave in late antiquity, or a married man and a concubine. A naturalis was the offspring of a couple who could have married and indeed might do so in the future; this last category was treated fairly indulgently, the product of "young love" that got carried away.
davidjackson > 16-12-2021, 09:39 PM
tavie > 17-12-2021, 04:59 PM
bi3mw > 17-12-2021, 05:23 PM
(17-12-2021, 04:59 PM)tavie Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To be fair to the theory, haven't we all at some point thought that the Voynich authors were bastards?
Koen G > 17-12-2021, 06:48 PM
bi3mw > 18-12-2021, 01:15 PM
(16-12-2021, 09:39 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the mother was of superior social status, the child would be far more easily accepted into noble families than if the mother was of lower status.