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JOAN OF ARC
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| By: |
Helen Castor |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571284620 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571284627 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
2 October, 2014 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, the author gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart. |
| Synopsis: |
Fresh from telling the story of England's queens before Elizabeth in her bestseller She-Wolves, acclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before. "Popular history at its best." (Daily Telegraph). 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 fifteenth century France apart. Here is a portrait of a 19-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 which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour 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 refreshing new take on the medieval world.Helen 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, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber Non-Fiction |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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