Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.
Contents:
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.
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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