The Gift of Tongues: Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Cooper-Rampato, Christine F.

Title
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