Joan of Arc

The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before A French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and put on trial, she was denounced as a heretic and burned at the stake at the age of just nineteen. Five hundred years later, she was recognised as a saint. Here, Joan and her world are brought vividly to life by acclaimed historian Helen Castor, taking us to the heart of a tumultuous and bloody moment in the fifteenth century and the short by astonishing life of an extraordinary woman.

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A masterful, thrilling portrait of sinister power, magical charisma and gruesome death. Simon Sebag Montefiore Evening Standard Books of the Year

Product details

• Authors: Helen Castor, Castor Helen
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780571284634
• ISBN: 978-0-571-28463-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book; France, European History, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / France, CE period up to c 1500, Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: historical, political and military, European history: medieval period, middle ages