Joan of Arc: Her StoryPalgrave Macmillan, 1999 M10 15 - 304 páginas The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography, supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible for English-language readers. --Wendy Smith. |
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... kingdom's territory . The problem was compounded by the fact that the two mightiest feudal princes , the dukes of Aquitaine and Burgundy , were also lords of territories beyond the kingdom's boundaries , which often made them richer in ...
... kingdom's territory . The problem was compounded by the fact that the two mightiest feudal princes , the dukes of Aquitaine and Burgundy , were also lords of territories beyond the kingdom's boundaries , which often made them richer in ...
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... kingdom of France , then the most populous , largest , and richest realm in Christendom . The equivalent of a French Supreme Court decided in favor of the Valois line and rejected the claims of Edward's Plantagenet dynasty . Nine years ...
... kingdom of France , then the most populous , largest , and richest realm in Christendom . The equivalent of a French Supreme Court decided in favor of the Valois line and rejected the claims of Edward's Plantagenet dynasty . Nine years ...
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... kingdom . ) All this time , Charles VI seemed to vacillate between sanity and madness ; eventually he became known as Charles the Mad . The third phase of the Hundred Years War , 1413 to 1428 , lasted from the accession of the second ...
... kingdom . ) All this time , Charles VI seemed to vacillate between sanity and madness ; eventually he became known as Charles the Mad . The third phase of the Hundred Years War , 1413 to 1428 , lasted from the accession of the second ...
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... kingdom of France had appeared to be the ideal Christian state . Its prosperity and internal peace under an unbroken dynasty of kings who dispensed justice rather than oppression ( as those values were generally understood ) seemed to ...
... kingdom of France had appeared to be the ideal Christian state . Its prosperity and internal peace under an unbroken dynasty of kings who dispensed justice rather than oppression ( as those values were generally understood ) seemed to ...
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... kingdom of France . Public opinion in much of the rest of Europe was so consistently distressed , sometimes outraged , by that surrender of the papacy's ancient role and symbolic seat that the papacy returned to Rome in 1376 amid ...
... kingdom of France . Public opinion in much of the rest of Europe was so consistently distressed , sometimes outraged , by that surrender of the papacy's ancient role and symbolic seat that the papacy returned to Rome in 1376 amid ...
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VII | 15 |
VIII | 33 |
IX | 53 |
X | 69 |
XI | 89 |
XII | 103 |
XIII | 139 |
LXIX | 207 |
LXXII | 208 |
LXXIV | 210 |
LXXV | 211 |
LXXVI | 212 |
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