Action Francaise
Arc's History
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Charles VII
Christine De Pizan
Condemnation Trial
De Gaucourt
De Jehanne
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Jeanne La Pucelle
Joan's Condemnation
Joan's Execution
Joan's Interrogations
Joan's Judges
Joan's Mission
Joan's Trial
Joan's Voices
Joan’s Condemnation
Joan’s Execution
Joan’s Interrogations
Joan’s Judges
Joan’s Mission
Joan’s Trial
Joan’s Voices
La Pucelle
Le Fevre
Le Franc
Martin Le Franc
Nullification Trial
Philip III
Rehabilitation Trial
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138974678
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Bonnie Wheeler, Charles T. Wood
