An edition of The gift of tongues (2010)
The gift of tongues
women's xenoglossia in the later middle ages
By Christine F. Cooper-Rompato
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Publish Date
2010
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Language
eng
Pages
-
Description:
"Explores the phenomenon of xenoglossia, the sudden, miraculous ability to speak, understand, read, or write a foreign language, as it appears in the later medieval hagiographic record and in English literature. Includes discussion of the late medieval English writers Geoffrey Chaucer and Margery Kempe"--Provided by publisher.