Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life and Death (1908)
Author : Margaret Wilson Oliphant
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104872427
Author : Margaret Wilson Oliphant
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104872427
Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816632671
The transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial for heresy at Rouen in 1431 and the minutes of her interrogation have long been recognized as our best source of information about the Maid of Orleans. Historians generally view these legal texts as a precise account of Joan's words and, by extension, her beliefs. Focusing on the minutes recorded by clerics, however, Karen Sullivan challenges the accuracy of the transcript. In The Interrogation of Joan of Arc, she re-reads the record not as a perfect reflection of a historical personality's words, but as a literary text resulting from the collaboration between Joan and her interrogators. Sullivan provides an illuminating and innovative account of Joan's trial and interrogation, placing them in historical, social, and religious context. In the fifteenth century, interrogation was a method of truth-gathering identified not with people like Joan, who was uneducated, but with clerics, like those who tried her. When these clerics questioned Joan, they did so as scholastics educated at the University of Paris, as judges and assistants to judges, and as pastors trained in hearing confessions. The Interrogation of Joan of Arc traces Joan's conflicts with her interrogators not to differing political allegiances, but to fundamental differences between clerical and lay cultures. Sullivan demonstrates that the figure depicted in the transcripts as Joan of Arc is a complex, multifaceted persona that results largely from these cultural differences. Discerning and innovative, this study suggests a powerful new interpretive model and redefines our sense of Joan and her time.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3849672530
Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive. She was burned to death when she was only nineteen: she was not seventeen when she first led the armies of France to victory, and delivered her country from the English.
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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Page : 936 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1909
Category : American literature
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Author : Salem Public Library
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Bonnie Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131773114X
Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to be found a saint. This volume of original essays seeks to shed light on these mysteries, but also to explain why, even in the 20th century, Joan of Arc remains such a potent symbol. Scholars here employ the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reveal why verterans of her military campaigns found her to have been a remarkable commander; why so many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries, churchman and poets alike, found it possible to accept the validity of her mission and her voices; why modern politicians and literary and cinematic artists have used her as the symbolic vehicle for their own visions; and why the Catholic Church finally decided to canonize her in 1920. The essays are heavily cross-referenced, and are capped off with a reflective epilogue by R gine Pernoud, long the dean of Joan scholars and former director of the Centre Jeanne d'Arc at Orleans. Also includes maps.
Author : Joan M. Edmunds
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 190263697X
"People write biographies today without the faintest idea that great spiritual powers are at work in human history." --Rudolf Steiner Almost six centuries have passed since the death of Joan of Arc, but an enduring fascination with her life continues to generate new studies, adding to the huge number of books and articles on her life. Those by reputable historians and biographers have recounted the many known facts, based mostly on the surviving fifteenth-century documents. Whereas historians have firmly established Joan's central role in expelling the English from French soil, the real mystery of her achievements remains unexplained. Moreover, Joan Edmunds contends that this key mystery cannot be resolved by relying solely on orthodox historical methods. Basing her work on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual-scientific findings--which first revealed the true significance of Joan's mission--Edmunds explores the mystery of the Maid of Orleans' unique personality. She shows how, while under the guidance and direction of the Archangel Michael, and through her ultimate martyrdom, Joan of Arc was instrumental in bringing to birth the forces needed for the next vital step in human spiritual development--the emergence of the consciousness soul.
Author : Ontario. Legislative Library
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Canada
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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602064210
1909. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. In this work, Lang gives both the believer's and the skeptic's side as to the explanation of Joan of Arc's experiences. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.