TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper-Rompato,Christine F.
TI  - The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages 
SN  - 9780271099415
AV  - BT122.5 .C66 2010eb
U1  - 234/.1320820940902 22
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
KW  - Glossolalia
KW  - Women in Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Xenoglossy
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cooper-Rompato
KW  - Margery Kempe
KW  - Medieval
KW  - The Gift of Tongues
KW  - bible
KW  - chaucer
KW  - hagiography
KW  - language
KW  - lunguist
KW  - xenoglossia
KW  - xenoglossy
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271099415?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271099415
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ER  -