Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned 
with light through , not light on .

Medieval illumination, gloss, and sculpture alike were aspects of 
the art of memory, central to scribal culture.

For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of 
meaning.

The sheer increase in the quantity of information movement 
favored the visual organization of knowledge and the rise 
of perspective even before typography.

The same clash between written and oral structures of 
knowledge occurs in medieval social life.