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...the essential modern starting point for Joan of Arc studies...a volume of immenst variety and richness and the editors must be congratulated for doing the scholarly and general community such a service in regard to the evergreen topic of Joan the Maid.
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Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to be found a saint. This volume of original essays seeks to shed light on these mysteries, but also to explain why, even in the 20th century, Joan of Arc remains such a potent symbol. Scholars here employ the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reveal why verterans of her military campaigns found her to have been a remarkable commander; why so many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries, churchman and poets alike, found it possible to accept the validity of her mission and her voices; why modern politicians and literary and cinematic artists have used her as the symbolic vehicle for their own visions; and why the Catholic Church finally decided to canonize her in 1920. The essays are heavily cross-referenced, and are capped off with a reflective epilogue by R gine Pernoud, long the dean of Joan scholars and former director of the Centre Jeanne d'Arc at Orleans. Also includes maps.

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No person of the Middle Ages, male or female, has been the subject of more study than Joan of Arc. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan, New York, Middle Ages, Martin Le Franc, Jules Quicherat, Promotor Verde, Hundred Years War, Defender Minetti, Jean Pasquerel, Jean Gerson, Pierre Duparc, Marina Warner, University of Paris, Jean Chartier, Promotor Caprara, British Film Institute, Church Militant, Louis de Coutes, Nadia Margolis, Simon Charles, Deborah Fraioli, Devil's Advocate, Moving Picture World, Philippe Contamine New!
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