The gift of tongues : women's xenoglossia in the later middle ages /
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 Kem...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2010]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271036168 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271036168 (cloth : alk. paper) |