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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.