Title: The gift of tongues
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.
Subjects: Xenoglossy, Women in Christianity, Women in literature, Glossolalia, History, Tungomålstalande, Historia, Middle Ages, Kristna kvinnor, Kvinnor i litteraturen, Women in christianity
Time periods: Middle Ages, 600-1500