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The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages Cooper-Rompato, Christine F. (Utah State University)
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The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages
Cooper-Rompato, Christine F. (Utah State University)
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.
232 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 25, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271036168 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 164 × 22 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |