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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Castor, Helen

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresFrench History

Publisher Price: $20.99

ISBN10: 0062384406
ISBN13: 9780062384409
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 17 2016
Pages: 376
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world--as never told before.

Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castor's Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. 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.

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