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Mary
Gordon.
Joan of Arc.
London: Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 2000.
Lives
series.
xxii,168pp.
Hardback ISBN
0297645684, £12.99.
Publisher's
recommended price £12.99
Eternally
fascinating,
an enigma no less in our time than in her own, Joan of Arc has haunted
western consciousness since her martyrdom in 1431. Who was this girl
who
at thirteen began to hear the voices of saints, at seventeen rode into
battle to rescue France from English domination and at nineteen was put
on trial for heresy and sorcery and was burned at the stake? She was
refused
canonization for five hundred years but became a saviour in France -
the
first to die for a Christian-inspired idea of nationalism.
In
this book Mary
Gordon, with the passion and grace that mark her bestselling novels
about
women and faith, penetrates this cultural icon to examine the
vulnerability
of a woman forced by her mission into the public world of men - from
her
first march at the head of the French soldiery to her capture by the
British
in 1430; from her vilification as a witch, to the formidable legacy of
her struggle.
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