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01883aam a2200337 a 4500 001 DD57A59043D811E08B8BE89D6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110301010650 008 090714s2010 pau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009028044 020 $a 0271036168 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780271036168 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)426147264 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d CDX $d YDXCP $d BWX $d ERASA $d MNJ $d SILO 050 00 $a BT122.5 $b .C66 2010 050 00 $a BT122.5 $b .C66 2010 100 1 $a Cooper-Rompato, Christine F., $d 1970- 245 1 $a The gift of tongues : $b women's xenoglossia in the later Middle Ages / $c Christine F. Cooper-Rompato. 260 $a University Park, Pa. : $b Pennsylvania State University Press, $c c2010. 300 $a x, 217 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index. 505 0 $a Miraculous translations : gifts of vernacular tongues in later medieval vitae -- Miraculous literacies : medieval women's miraculous experiences of Latin -- "An alien to understand her" : miraculous and mundane translation in The book of Margery Kempe -- Women's miraculous translation in Chaucer's Canterbury tales. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Glossolalia. 650 0 $a Xenoglossy. 650 0 $a Women in Christianity $x History $y Middle Ages, 600-1500. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825051534.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20110301091046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD57A59043D811E08B8BE89D6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search