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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

By Kathryn Harrison

Book information

Publisher
Doubleday
Year
2014
ISBN
0385531206, 9780385531207
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
10 MB (10936107 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
382\235
Time added
2016-09-29 10:25:40
Saints;Catholicism;France;Europe;Historical;Biogra

Description

Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleanss extraordinary story in its own way, and in Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical inquisition and in the face of her death by burning. Deftly weaving historical fact, myth, folklore, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a compelling narrative, she restores Joan of Arc to her rightful position as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.

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