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Craig
Taylor, ed. & trans.
Joan
of Arc: La Pucelle.
Manchester
U.P., May 2006.
Manchester
Medieval Sources series.
216x138mm.
368pp.
Publisher's
recommended price
Hardback
ISBN 0719068460, £60.00
Paperback ISBN 0719068479, £16.99
This important book offers
a collection of documents on the historical figure Joan of Arc, who at
the age of seventeen united France against England and at nineteen was
put on trial and subsequently burned at the stake. Also known as La
Pucelle, or the virgin, she is a figure well documented in literature,
history and in popular culture. Nevertheless, this book will be the
first to put many of the most important texts documenting her life
together in a single volume, with some translated into modern English
for the first time. Following a detailed and enlightening introduction
by the author, the book adopts a chronological approach, starting with
Joan's childhood and her rise to prominence, her rise as a military
leader, the trials which resulted in her death, and finally a section
on the debate over Joan, looking at how she was remembered and recorded
by her contemporaries after her death.
This
book will encourage scholars and students to rethink this medieval
figure and help them to engage in using sources, and recognise the
limitations and the nature of various sources.
Contents:
Chronological table
Introduction
1. The life of Joan of Arc
2. The trial of condemnation (February to May 1431)
3. Debating Joan of Arc (1431–1450)
4. The nullification trial (1455–1456)
5. The memory of Joan of Arc
Select bibliography.
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