How exactly were books printed in the Middle Ages, before the age
of printing? As Thomas Cahill's book, How the Irish Saved
Civilization, dramatically demonstrates that without the medieval
Irish monks' devotion to transcription, much of the knowledge of
Western civilization would have been lost forever. At that time,
the author was often his own scribe and almost invariably his own
editor and publisher. In the age of manuscript culture, every copy
of every book had to be copied by hand and so every copy was
physically unique.
Peter J. Lucas explores what is known about the medieval
publishing process by close study of the work of friar John
Capgrave (1393-1464), a prolific author and one of the most learned
Englishmen of his day. What distinguishes Capgrave from other
medieval English authors is the wealth of manuscript evidence from
the author's scriptorium. Lucas focuses on how works newly composed
by an author were prepared in a form suitable for patrons and
readers. Capgrave's linguistic and scribal usages are set in the
socio-historical context of the fifteenth century, and related to
the growth and development of English literary patronage in the
late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Lucas, who teaches Old and
Middle English at University College, Dublin, was awarded the
Gordon Duff Prize by Oxford University for his work on
Capgrave.
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