Harper
May 2015
On Sale: May 19, 2015
Featuring: Joan of Arc
352 pages ISBN: 0062384392 EAN: 9780062384393 Kindle: B00N0WUPY6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval worldβas never told before.
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castorβs Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no oneβnot Joan herself, nor the people around herβprinces, bishops, soldiers, or peasantsβknew what would happen next.
Adding complexity, depth, and fresh insight into Joanβs life, and placing her actions in the context of the larger political and religious conflicts of fifteenth century France, Joan of Arc: A History is history at its finest and a surprising new portrait of this remarkable woman.
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