The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780271036151)

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.