Dimensions
140 x 205 x 23mm
Eternally fascinating, an enigma no less in our time than in her own, Joan of Arc has haunted western consciousness since her martyrdom in 1431. Who was this girl who at thirteen began to hear the voices of saints, at seventeen rode into battle to rescue France from English domination and at nineteen was put on trial for heresy and sorcery and was burned at the stake? She was refused canonisation for five hundred years but became a saviour in France - the first to die for a Christian-inspired idea of nationalism.
This book penetrates this cultural icon to examine the vulnerability of a woman forced by her mission into the public world of men - from her first march at the head of the French soldiery to her capture by the British in 1430; from her vilification as a witch, to the formidable legacy of her struggle.
