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Joan of Arc
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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.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.27 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.29 × 2.29 × 19.56 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 352 |
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| Year Published | 2015-5-7 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571284639 |
| About The Author | Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second book, She-Wolves, was made into a BBC2 tv series. She lives in London with her husband and son. |
| Review Quote | A masterful, thrilling portrait of sinister power, magical charisma and gruesome death. — Simon Sebag Montefiore ― Evening Standard Books of the Year Entirely convincing and gripping . . . Earlier this year, the city of Rouen opened a new museum dedicated to Joan of Arc, intended in part to rescue her image from the myths that have surrounded it. Castor's book is another important way of returning Joan's "star" to the realm where it belongs, the human one. — Amanda Foreman ― New York Times With elegant bravado, Helen Castor hacks through the different accounts, giving blood and sinew to a figure sassier than her saintly legend. ― Daily Telegraph Books of the Year A triumph – brings the real Joan and her time to dramatic, moving and brilliant life. ― Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets Castor writes about the battles with astonishing beauty, making the complicated politics of the time unusually exciting and imbuing history with page-turning momentum. — Laura Feigel ― Observer Helen Castor has brought back to life the fifteenth century's most famous woman . . . And she's done so with a true historian's care. — Lucy Worsley ― Mail on Sunday 'My Book of the Year' |
| Back Cover Copy | We all know the story of Joan of Arc. A peasant girl who hears voices from God. A warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believes women cannot fight. The Maid of Orléans, and the saviour of France. Burned at the stake as a heretic at the age of just nineteen. Five hundred years later, a saint. Her case was heard in court twice over. One trial, in 1431, condemned her; the other, twenty-five years after her death, cleared her name. In the transcripts, we hear first-hand testimony from Joan, her family and her friends: a rare survival from the medieval world. What could be more revealing? But all is not as simple as it seems, because this is a life told backwards, in hindsight – a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become. In Joan of Arc: A History, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards, setting this extraordinary girl within 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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