between an auditory and a visual bias seldom reached a high 
degree of intensity until after mechanical and typographical 
technology had conferred on the visual great preponderance. 
Prior to this ascendancy, the relative equality among the 
senses of sight, sound, touch, and movement in interplay in 
manuscript culture, had fostered the preference for light 
through , whether in language, art or architecture. Panofsky’s 
view in Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism  (pp. 58­60) is:

     A man imbued with the scholastic habit would look upon 
     the mode of architectural presentation just as he looked 
     upon the mode of literary presentation, from the point of 
     view of manifestatio.  He would have taken it for granted 
     that the primary purpose of the many elements that 
     compose a cathedral was to ensure stability, just as he 
     took it for granted that the primary purpose of the many