Renaissance Suppliants
Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation
Leah Whittington
Reviews and Awards
"A compelling picture of how to reread cultural and literary history." -- Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900
"Traversing the worlds of Homer, Vergil, Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Milton, among others, Renaissance Suppliants is a lucid, capacious study. Throughout, it remains deeply attentive to the particular historical exigencies that gave rise to the continual reinvention of supplicatory rituals within literature from antiquity to the Renaissance." --Christopher Crosbie, Modern Philology
"The book contributes generously to pre-existing scholarship regarding supplication, especially of Renaissance England. ... The final product should interest scholars of not only literature but also philosophy, sociology, and political science." --Asa Olson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review