Joan of Arc : The Image of Female Heroism (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from timswings

Warner captures the image of Joan as the saint who gives comfort and provide an image of perfection. An innocent country girl who tended sheep and was called by God.The fictional popularizations of Joan, her sainthood, and symbolic use of her image for so many different and opposing causes over t...

from timswings

Warner captures the image of Joan as the saint who gives comfort and provide an image of perfection. An innocent country girl who tended sheep and was called by God.The fictional popularizations of Joan, her sainthood, and symbolic use of her image for so many different and opposing causes over t...

from Chris_V

An extraordinary academic investigation - part-biography, part-deconstruction - of the French saint Joan of Arc. Marina Warner finds the real girl behind the symbolism - and then concentrates on the way her life and death have been used through the years in any number of ways.

from Acia

I started reading this book to understand how a young peasant woman managed to capture the dauphin's (the future Charles VII) imagination and mobilise men to fight moved by the conviction of her voices. Marina surpassed my expectations in her commitment to look beyond the trial papers and other c...

from EricCostello

Unfortunately, the author has managed to make some of the most interesting events, and personalities, of the Hundred Years' War deathly dull. Don't bother.