Author : Timothy Wilson-Smith
Publisher : History PressLtd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750943413
A historical analysis of the life of the fifteenth-century saint places her achievements and execution against the political backdrop of her time, offering insight into period Anglo-French relations as well as social opinions about secularization, republicanism, and faith.
Author : Timothy Wilson-Smith
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752472267
Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - the the French court, to battle to wrest France from the Englis in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture. She was put on trial for heresy and, on 30 may 1431, burned at the stake. Even today many people are fascinated by this teenage woman who persuaded her king to believe that she could lead her nation to victory. In the retrial of 1452-6 she was vindicated, but it took almost five hundred years after an English soldier declared 'we have burnt a saint' for the Catholic Church to conclude that she was indeed one. This new book is not merely an account of a life that was cut short; its focus is also on Joan's history, which in 1431 had just begun, and which, the author shows, was influenced just as much by the transformation in Anglo-French relations and by internal politics, issues of freedom and republicanism, and by changes in society regarding secularisation and belief, as by our response to the central issue of Joan's voice themselves.
Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101561297
“Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.” (Laura Miller, Salon.com) Politically astute, ambitious, and beautiful, Yolande of Aragon, queen of Sicily, was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Caught in the complex dynastic battle of the Hundred Years War, Yolande championed the dauphin's cause against the forces of England and Burgundy, drawing on her savvy, her statecraft, and her intimate network of spies. But the enemy seemed invincible. Just as French hopes dimmed, an astonishingly courageous young woman named Joan of Arc arrived from the farthest recesses of the kingdom, claiming she carried a divine message-a message that would change the course of history and ultimately lead to the coronation of Charles VII and the triumph of France. Now, on the six hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc, this fascinating book explores the relationship between these two remarkable women, and deepens our understanding of this dramatic period in history. How did an illiterate peasant girl gain access to the future king of France, earn his trust, and ultimately lead his forces into battle? Was it only the hand of God that moved Joan of Arc-or was it also Yolande of Aragon?
Author : Regine Pernoud
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312227302
In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film by Luc Besson.
Author : Helen Castor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062384414
From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world—as never told before. Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castor’s Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one—not Joan herself, nor the people around her—princes, bishops, soldiers, or peasants—knew what would happen next. Adding complexity, depth, and fresh insight into Joan’s life, and placing her actions in the context of the larger political and religious conflicts of fifteenth century France, Joan of Arc: A History is history at its finest and a surprising new portrait of this remarkable woman. Joan of Arc: A History features an 8-page color insert.
Author : Kimberly Cutter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408821869
The girl who led an army. The peasant who crowned a king. The maid who became a legend.
Author : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0767932498
Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan of Arc for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence on the battlefield, in the royal court, during a brutally rigged inquisition and imprisonment, and in the face of her death. In this new take on Joan’s story, Harrison deftly weaves historical fact, myth, folklore, scripture, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a fascinating narrative, revitalizing our sense of Joan as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.
Author : Ann W. Astell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268032609
Joan of Arc is a popular historical figure, recreated and reinvented in many modern films, poems and in narrative prose. In this book Ann Astell asks why post-Enlightenment writers chose Joan of Arc as a subject and in what ways they, the authors, identified with her.
Author : Nancy Garden
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1504046625
A young girl follows Joan of Arc into battle in this gripping historical novel. Having grown up in the quiet French village of Domremy, eleven-year-old Gabrielle can’t resist the promise of experiencing something new. So when her friend Jeannette d’Arc claims to have been chosen by God to restore the French king to the throne and end the war that has raged too long, Gabrielle joins her on her crusade. Disguised as a boy, young Gabrielle uses her skills as a healer to help those fighting for the cause. At first, she expects to find glorious adventure, but experiencing the horrors of war, she must come to terms with the true cost of courage in the face of the unthinkable. This “gripping, gritty tale” is a unique perspective on the heroine of the Hundred Years’ War who was later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Marina Warner
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Christian women saints
ISBN :
