They discover sexual messages hidden in cipher texts of the Middle Ages
voynich manuscript This has remained a mystery to historians for a long time. This document from the late Middle Ages is filled with depictions of stars and planets, plants, zodiac signs, naked women, and blue and green liquids. but the text itself It’s encrypted and don’t know exactly what it meansBut at least they have a clear idea of what their topic might be: sex and gynecology,
The truth is that this is not a strange thing. There was a doctor during the Middle Ages, Johannes Hartlieb, which recommended encrypting any text containing prescriptions for contraception or abortion. they also had to keep tips hidden About the pursuit of pleasure, foods to improve libido, positions during sex and postpartum ointments.
Hartlieb, who lived between 1410 and 1464 In favor of women developing themselves intellectually And they can make their own decisions about their bodies. This was the reason that led him to recommend that texts on the above subjects should be encrypted, so as not to fall into the wrong hands. They feared that if this happened, nefarious acts like adultery would be encouraged. Moreover, it would not only condemn those who did so. And also myself to give them the knowledge to get there.
Keegan Brewer and Michelle L. Lewis are two researchers who have carried out this research to decipher the Voynich Manuscript, which Currently at Yale University,
He noted that many of the paintings depicted naked women with objects near or pointing towards their genitals. It is typical of what was known at the time “Women’s Secrets”, Furthermore, in this medieval text emerge some huge drawings of rosettes, made up of 9 overlapping circles. In the Middle Ages it was believed that the uterus was made up of 7 chambers and that the vagina had 2 openings, an internal and an external. so, Those 9 circles may represent the female reproductive system,
for now, Nothing more is known, neither about the authors nor about the content. Apparently, this manuscript passed through the hands of 5 different scribes and was published in the late Middle Ages. The skins from which it is made according to radiocarbon dating Animals that died in the 15th century,