Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Name: Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc
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ISBN: 9780815336648

ISBN-10: 0815336640

ISBN-13: 9780815336648

Edition: 1999

Authors: Bonnie Wheeler, Charles T. Wood

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This volume of original essays seeks to shed light on the mysteries of Joan of Arc, and to explain, why even in the 20th century, she remains such a potent symbol. Contributors here employ the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, adn feminist inquiry to revewl why veterans of Joan's miltiray campaigns found her to be a remarkable commander; why so many of her contemporaries and mear-contemporaries alike, found it possible to accept the validity of her mission and her voices; why modern politicians and literary and cinematic artists have used her as the symbolic vehicle for their own visions; and why the Catholic Church finally decided to canonize her in 1920. The book…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Joan of Arc's Sword in the Stone



A Woman as Leader of Men: Joan of Arc's Military Career



Joan of Arc's Mission and the Lost Record of Her Interrogation at Poitiers



True Lies: Transvestism and Idolatry in the Trial of Joan of Arc



Was Joan of Arc a "Sign" of Charles VII's Innocence?



Transcription Errors in Texts of Joan of Arc's History



"I Do Not Name to You the Voice of St. Michael": The Identification of Joan of Arc's Voices



Readers of the Lost Arc: Secrecy, Secularity, and Speculation in the Trial of Joan of Arc



Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan: The Symbiosis of Two Warriors in the Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc



PR PAS PC: Christine de Pizan's Pro-Joan Propaganda



Speaking of Angels: A Fifteenth-Century Bishop in Defence of Joan of Arc's Mystical Voices



Martin Le Franc's Commentary on Jean Gerson's Treatise on Joan of Arc



Why Joan of Arc Never Became an Amazon



Joan of Arc's Last Trial: The Attack of the Devil's Advocates



Jeanne Au Cinema



The "Joan Phenomenon" and the French Right



Epilogue: Joan of Arc or the Survival of a People



App. Joan of Arc and Her Doctors



App. Aspects of Material Culture in the Paris Region at the Time of Joan of Arc



Contributors