![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I've seen a film or two about her (and think the 1928 one was brilliant). The front cover shows a more or less contemporary marginal doodle of the maid of France herself.ĮTA: She is my first 'favorite saint', and although she's not my patron saint, she's certainly in my top-ten of my favorites still. Still no major insights or transformation of understanding, more a curious sense of having been very close to a historical person. The great strength of this book and the reason why despite it's age I thoroughly enjoyed it, is how much it draws on the material from the two trials of Joan of Arc with sizeable chunks of statements reproduced in the text. Later, the French held a second trial which equally unsurprisingly exonerated her completely. Her career in public service was terribly brief, and having been caught by the Burgundians, and handed over to the English, she was burnt to death after a trial - the medieval period was nothing if not intensely legalistic. We probably can't, but books like this give us the illusion that it might just be possible. In an age in which public affairs were dominated by older, high status men, a young peasant woman inspired armies and forced France into a resurgence, is somebody who we want to know and understand. ![]() Joan of Arc sets the medieval world on its head. ![]()
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