This Mater Dolorosa raises an interesting issue about Joan. ... The bias this time was in Joan's direction. ... Its inconsistencies and irregularities were pointed out: Joan should have been held in an ecclesiastical, not a secular, ...
Joan of Arc: A Self-Portrait
Both a revered heroine and Catholic saint, Joan of Arc played a prominent part in the Hundred Years' War, and is remembered for her bravery both on and off the battlefield.
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Learn all about Joan of Arc s childhood in war-torn France; ride with the young warrior into battle after battle and see how she helped a king win his rightful crown; watch as she falls into British hands and suffers an unjust trial for ...
Presents the life of the saint who heard voices that she believed were from God instructing her to save France from the English.
Inspired to aid the future King Charles VII, whose right to the throne had been denied by the English in the Hundred Years War, Joan of Arc made her journey clad in male attire.
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This book shows how the trial, which was organised by her enemies, provides an important window into late medieval attitudes towards religion and gender, as Joan was effectively persecuted by the established Church for her supposedly non ...
Joan of Arc
Joan was a child whose country suffered under the horrors of invasion and civil war.
She was a child of wartime, for her country had long suffered under the twin horrors of invasion and civil war. At thirteen she began to hear the voices of...