exact description of exegesis as understood by Claudius . . . We 
are invited to look not at the text but through it.”

     Probably any medieval person would be puzzled at our 
idea of looking through something. He would assume that the 
reality looked through at us, and that by contemplation we 
bathed in the divine light, rather than looked at it. The quite 
different sensuous assumptions of manuscript culture, ancient 
and medieval, from anything since Gutenberg, obtrude from the 
ancient doctrine of the senses and the sensus communis . (31) 
Erwin Panofsky in his study of Gothic Architecture and  
Scholasticism  also stresses the medieval bias for light through 
and found it helpful to tackle the architectural problem via the 
schoolmen:

      “Sacred doctrine,” says Thomas Aquinas, “makes use of