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cathedral, refectory, or a burgher chamber, it lives in its
proportions, its materials, its form. This sense for the
dignity of space did not end with the Middle Ages. It
lasted until nineteenth-century industrialism blurred the
feelings. Yet no later age so emphatically renounced
bodily comfort. The ascetic ways of monasticism invisibly
shaped the period to its own image.
Medieval illumination, gloss, and sculpture alike were aspects of
the art of memory, central to scribal culture.
* In this lengthy consideration of the oral aspects of
manuscript culture, whether in the ancient or medieval phase,
we gain this advantage: we shall not be inclined to look here for
literary qualities that were the later product of print culture.