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Joan of Arc

A History
  • By Helen Castor
$23.79
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The acclaimed historian Helen Castor--bestselling author and BBC broadcaster of She-Wolves, the story of England's queens before Elizabeth I--returns with the incredible story of Joan of Arc, as only a biographer of Castor's enormous talents can tell it.

Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman, a roaring girl fighting the English and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing apart fifteenth-century France.

Here is a portrait of a nineteen-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior, leading an army to victory in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth that began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the savior of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who, five hundred years later, would be declared a saint.

Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this startling new take on the medieval world.

Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no one, not Joan herself or the people around her--princes, bishops, soldiers, or peasants--knew what would happen next.

Adding complexity, depth, and fresh insight into Joan's life, showing her confronting the challenges of faith and doubt in a superstitious age, Castor's Joan of Arc is a rich history and biography that allows us to better understand this remarkable woman and her world.

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    Product Specs
    • SKU: 9780062384393
    • Manufacturer: Harpercollins
    • ISBN 13: 9780062384393
    • Language of Text: English
    • Publication Date: 05/01/2015
    • Format: Hardcover
    • Author: Helen Castor
    • Page Count: 352
    • Width: 6.30 inches
    • Height: 1.10 inches
    • Length: 9.30 inches

     
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