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And it was the same pressure of quantity that told, in the long
run, in favor of typography. But the point where the visual and
the oral approaches to scripture came into sharp medieval
conflict was, as might have been predicted, axial or polar to the
area where conflict occurred in the new visual culture of the
Renaissance. Hugh of St. Victor conveys the matter clearly:
The mystical sense is only gathered from what the
letter says, in the first place. I wonder how people have
the face to boast themselves teachers of allegory, when
they do not know the primary meaning of the letter. “We
read the Scriptures”, they say, “but we don’t read the
letter. The letter does not interest us. We teach allegory.”
How do you read Scripture then, if you don’t read the
letter? Subtract the letter and what is left? “We read the
letter” they say, “but not according to the letter. We read