From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and Medieval PublicationThe author explores what is known about the medieval publishing process by close study of the work of John Capgrave (1393 1464), a prolific author and one of the most learned Englishmen of his day. In the Middle Ages, before the age of printing, the author was often his own scribe and almost invariably his own editor and publisher. Lucas shows how works newly composed by an author were prepared. Capgrave's linguistic and scribal usages are set in the