The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages Tapa dura - 2010

Penn State University Press. Used - Very Good. 2010. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear. Very Good. (Subject: ).

Penn State University Press. New. 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is Fine. In publisher's shrinkwrap. New.

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2010. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 232 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

Penn State University Press, 2010. NEW copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 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.. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - 8"… Leer más

Pennsylvania, , 2010. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp x, 217. Original publisher's black cloth with lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 9780271036168

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Penn State University Press, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Clean, unread copy in jacket. 217pp..