Title: The Maid and the Queen
Description: An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon. Joan's fleeting moment at the centre of Anglo-French politics retains its historical and cultural currency precisely because her story is never less than compelling; and Yolande of Aragon is a significant and fascinating example of those medieval women who brought extraordinary intellectual capacity and hard-won political expertise to bear on a structure of power that assumed its leaders would be male.
Subjects: Joan, of arc, saint, 1412-1431, Christian women, Women saints, Nobility, france, France, history, Saints, biography, Friends and associates, Christian women saints, Biography, Christian saints, Nobility, France, biography, History