of later scholasticism into visual “method,” will be a major aid 
in the next phase of the Gutenberg configuration of events. 
More, in the second book of his Utopia  (p. 82), also shows his 
entire awareness of the homogenizing process of the later 
scholasticism of his own day. He is happy to record that 
Utopians are old-fashioned: “But as they in all thynges be 
almost equall to our olde auncyente clerkes, so our new 
Logiciens in subtyll inventyons have farre passed and gone 
beyonde them. For they have not devised one of all those rules 
of restryctyons, and amplyfycatyons, and supposytyons, very 
wittelye invented in the small Logycalles, whyche heare oure 
chyldren in euerye place do learne.”

     Both L’Apparition du livre  by Febvre and Martin, and Curt 
Bühler’s The Fifteenth Century Book  are extensive studies of the 
transition from scribal to typographical culture. Together with