Title: Joan of Arc
Description: 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. - Back cover.
Subjects: Women heroes, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Soldiers, Women soldiers, Christian women saints, Biography, History, Joan, of arc, saint, 1412-1431, Women saints, France, history, medieval period, 987-1515, Saints, biography, 15.70 history of Europe, Mythevorming, New York Times reviewed, Hundred Years' War (1339-1453) fast (OCoLC)fst00963888, Christian saints, Hundred Years' War (1339-1453) fast (OCoLC)fst00963888 (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062988 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00963888