"Magnifying God Manyfolde": James Ryman's Practice of Repetition.
This article examines the poems of James Ryman (fl. 1492), a Franciscan friar at Canterbury. With reference to their mise-en-page in the sole surviving manuscript, the partial holograph Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.1.12, it focuses on Ryman's habit of repeating both scriptural and liturgical...
| Published in: | Modern Philology Vol. 122; no. 2; pp. 165 - 189 |
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