Joan of Arc
Price
$14.50
Format
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Publication Date
Main edition (May 7, 2015
ISBN-13
978-0571284634
Dimensions
5 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches
Weight
9 ounces
Description
Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses , was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second, She Wolves , was made into a major BBC2 TV series. She lives in London with her husband and son.
Features & Highlights
- The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before
- A French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and put on trial, she was denounced as a heretic and burned at the stake at the age of just nineteen. Five hundred years later, she was recognised as a saint.Here, Joan and her world are brought vividly to life by acclaimed historian Helen Castor, taking us to the heart of a tumultuous and bloody moment in the fifteenth century and the short by astonishing life of an extraordinary woman.
