TY - BOOK ID - 515199 TI - The gift of tongues : women's xenoglossia in the later Middle Ages PY - 2010 SN - 9780271036168 PB - University Park, Pa Pennsylvania State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - Christian spirituality KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Glossolalia. KW - Xenoglossy KW - Women in Christianity KW - Women in literature. KW - Glossolalie KW - Xénoglossie KW - Femmes dans le christianisme KW - Femmes dans la littérature KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Xénoglossie KW - Femmes dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:515199 AB - 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. ER -