The gift of tongues
Subtitle: women's xenoglossia in the later middle ages
By: Christine F. Cooper-Rompato.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271036168
Subjects: Glossolalia; Xenoglossy; Women in Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Women in literature -- History -- To 1500
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.