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The Gift of Tongues : Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages / Christine F. Cooper-Rompato.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2010Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271099415
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 234/.1320820940902 22
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  • BT122.5 .C66 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Miraculous Translations: Gifts of Vernacular Tongues in Later Medieval Vitae -- 2 Miraculous Literacies: Medieval Women’s Miraculous Experiences of Latin -- 3 ‘‘An Alien to Understand Her’’: Miraculous and Mundane Translation in The Book of Margery Kempe -- 4 Women’s Miraculous Translation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Tales of xenoglossia—the instantaneous ability to read, to write, to speak, or to understand a foreign language—have long captivated audiences. Perhaps most popular in Christian religious literature, these stories celebrate the erasing of all linguistic differences and the creation of wider spiritual communities. The accounts of miraculous language acquisition that appeared in the Bible inspired similar accounts in the Middle Ages. Though medieval xenoglossic miracles have their origins in those biblical stories, the medieval narratives have more complex implications. In The Gift of Tongues, Christine Cooper-Rompato examines a wide range of sources to show that claims of miraculous language are much more important to medieval religious culture than previously recognized and are crucial to understanding late medieval English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Margery Kempe.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Miraculous Translations: Gifts of Vernacular Tongues in Later Medieval Vitae -- 2 Miraculous Literacies: Medieval Women’s Miraculous Experiences of Latin -- 3 ‘‘An Alien to Understand Her’’: Miraculous and Mundane Translation in The Book of Margery Kempe -- 4 Women’s Miraculous Translation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Tales of xenoglossia—the instantaneous ability to read, to write, to speak, or to understand a foreign language—have long captivated audiences. Perhaps most popular in Christian religious literature, these stories celebrate the erasing of all linguistic differences and the creation of wider spiritual communities. The accounts of miraculous language acquisition that appeared in the Bible inspired similar accounts in the Middle Ages. Though medieval xenoglossic miracles have their origins in those biblical stories, the medieval narratives have more complex implications. In The Gift of Tongues, Christine Cooper-Rompato examines a wide range of sources to show that claims of miraculous language are much more important to medieval religious culture than previously recognized and are crucial to understanding late medieval English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Margery Kempe.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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