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1 ‘Cum magna solicitudine’: Passion, exegesis, and verse in John Grimestone’s notebook
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Published:October 2024
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Abstract
John Grimestone’s notebook seems to offer the tantalizing perspective of a friar in mid-thought. It is a holograph, with a colophon of 1372. At first sight, it consists of a rather unprepossessing collection of preaching topics, but what makes it unusual is the sheer number of English items: 246. This is far higher than any other comparable collection. These verses in English range from short distinctiones resembling cues in note form or compressed couplets, to much longer poems: stanzaic lullabies and dialogue poems, poems in long lines, and others in short quatrains. The book is remarkable for almost concealing its purpose as a sermon resource under the guise of lyric anthology (or is it the other way round?). This essay will provide a close study of sections of the manuscript, and consider not ‘are these lyrics?’, but other more oblique things—what expectations and uses are made of verse in these works? What happens when we try to read this book? The very unlikeliness of the context—the embeddedness of the verse in a preaching matrix—has the potential to help us see what kinds of formal, structural, exegetical, and devotional distinctions were important to a notion of English verse in the period, and especially for this friar.
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