Joan of Arc : a history / Helen Castor.
Publication details: London : Faber & Faber, 2015.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xiv, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, map, genealogical tables ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780571284634
- 0571284639 (pbk.)
- Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431
- Christian women saints -- France -- Biography
- Christian saints -- France -- Biography
- Women soldiers -- France -- Biography
- Soldiers -- France -- Biography
- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
- Women heroes -- France -- Biography
- France -- History -- Charles VII, 1422-1461
- France -- History -- Charles VI, 1380-1422
- 944.026092 B 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 944.026 CAS | Available | 066479 |
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Originally published in England in 2014 by Faber & Faber.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.