closer relation to the audile-tactile, space was not a visual 
container. There was scarcely any furniture in a medieval room, 
as Siegfried Giedion explains in Mechanization Takes Command  
(p. 301):

          And yet there was a medieval comfort. But it must 
     be sought in another dimension, for it cannot be 
     measured on the material scale. The satisfaction and 
     delight that were medieval comfort have their source in 
     the configuration of space. Comfort is the atmosphere 
     with which man surrounds himself and in which he lives. 
     Like the medieval Kingdom of God, it is something that 
     eludes the grasp of hands. Medieval comfort is the 
     comfort of space.
          A medieval room seems finished even when it 
     contains no furniture. It is never bare. Whether a