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Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History (Paperback, New Ed)
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Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 - to the French court, to battle to wrest
France from the English 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. 'Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and
Mystery' 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 voices themselves.
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