Joan of Arc
Author: Saint Joan (of Arc)
Publisher: Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781885983084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy.
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Author: Saint Joan (of Arc)
Publisher: Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781885983084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy.
Author: Helen Castor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0062384414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1526112795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc. Also known as La Pucelle, she led a French Army against the English in 1429, arguably turning the course of the war in favour of the French king Charles VII. The fact that she achieved all of this when just a seventeen-year-old peasant girl highlights the magnitude of her achievements and also opens up other ways of looking at her story. For many, Joan represents the voice of ordinary people in the fifteenth century; the victims of high politics and warfare that devastated France. Her story ended tragically in 1431 when she was put on trial for heresy and sorcery by an ecclesiastical court and was burned at the stake. This book shows how the trial, which was organised by her enemies, provides an important window into late medieval attitudes towards religion and gender, as Joan was effectively persecuted by the established Church for her supposedly non-conformist views on spirituality and the role of women. Presented within a contextual and critical framework, this book encourages scholars and students to rethink this remarkable story. It will be invaluable reading for those working in the fields of medieval society and heresy, as well as the Hundred Years’ War.
Author: Régine Pernoud
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0812812603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.
Author: Deborah A. Fraioli
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2005-03-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313324581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical overview provides a comprehensive look at the people and events that provoked, perpetuated, and finally helped to end the animosity between France and England during the Hundred Years War.
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781411614420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Twain's own favorite among his works, the product of a life-long obsession with the history of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc was a failure in terms of sales and has remained obscure and largely out of print for more than a century since its publication. It is, in reality, a much more lively book than its reputation would indicate, and no reader can claim to understand Twain's canon without having read this novel. The initial offering in the Litrix Library series (see also www.litrix.com).
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 3849672530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoan 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.
Author: Diane Stanley
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2002-02-05
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0064437485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a story of vision and bravery, fierce determination, and tragic martyrdom. Diane Stanley's extraordinary gift to present historical information in an accessible and child-friendly format has never been more impressive, nor her skillful, beautifully realized illustrations (here imitating medieval illuminated manuscripts) more exquisite.
Author: Polly Schoyer Brooks
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780395981382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaces the life of the fifteenth-century girl who has become a French national symbol within the social, religious, and political context of her time.