Joan of Arc

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<p><b>Acclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.</b><br><br><b>'Popular history at its best.' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780571284634

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 128 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Verlag / Hersteller

Faber & Faber