Joan of Arc
Subtitle: a history
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780062384393
Copyright date: 2015
Description: "The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. 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"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cast of characters; title: Family trees; title: Maps; title: Introduction: "Joan of Arc"; title: Prologue: The field of blood; title: Part one : Before.; title: This war, accursed of God; title: Like another Messiah; title: Desolate and divided; title: Part two : Joan.; title: The maid; title: Like an angel from God; title: A heart greater than any man's; title: A creature in the form of a woman; title: I will be with you soon; title: A simple maid; title: Fear of the fire; title: Part three : After.; title: Those who called themselves Frenchmen; title: She was all innocence; title: Epilogue: "Saint Joan"