The Middle Ages very frequently reproduced the signs of the zodiac and the occupations corresponding to each month of the year. He sculpted them on the portals of churches, painted on the windows and on the vellums of manuscripts. These two themes allowed medieval man to walk on the earth while looking up to the sky and to recall the complexity of the links that unite one to the other. The occupations of the months, associated with the earth, resonate with the signs of the zodiac, associated with the sky.

 

“Man has in himself heaven and earth. » Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179).

 

“The stars incline but do not determine. »Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274).