The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Cooper-Rampato, Christine F.
The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- ix, 217 pp.
- Description
- Discusses (pp. 143-88) Chaucer's "great translation experiment" in PrPT, MLT, and SqT, arguing that Chaucer is "highly invested in the mechanics of miraculous and mundane translation" and that Custance is a "medieval example of a xenoglossic holy woman who possesses a complete mastery over Latinity." Translation is crucial to an understanding of "Chaucer's accomplishments as a vernacular writer and his contribution to Middle English literature."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies