Renaissance suppliants : poetry, antiquity, reconciliation / Leah Whittington.

Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance, arguing that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, A ritual form of communication in moments of extreme helplessness a...

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Main Author: Whittington, Leah, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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