Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

Kathryn Harrison
3.47/5 (940 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer, and Robert Bresson. Was she a divinely inspired saint? A schizophrenic? A demonically possessed heretic, as her persecutors and captors tried to prove?

Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's 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.
Format:
Pages:
382 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0385531206
ISBN13:
9780385531207
kindle Asin:
B00K4C3RFO

Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

Kathryn Harrison
3.47/5 (940 ratings)
Read Download
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer, and Robert Bresson. Was she a divinely inspired saint? A schizophrenic? A demonically possessed heretic, as her persecutors and captors tried to prove?

Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's 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.
Format:
Pages:
382 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0385531206
ISBN13:
9780385531207
kindle Asin:
B00K4C3RFO

More Books

Joan of Arc: A History (Cut Edge)

Helen Castor

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

Eleanor Janega

Joan

Katherine J. Chen

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

Thomas Malory

On the Abolition of All Political Parties

Simone Weil

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

Matthew Gabriele

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

John Kelly

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics

Katrine Marçal

The Serial Killer's Apprentice

Katherine Ramsland

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Jack Hartnell