Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

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 inÂ Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured,Â the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our timeâ€”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.

Country	USA
Author	Kathryn Harrison
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1st
EISBN	9780385531221
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Anchor
Manufacturer	Anchor
NumberOfPages	382
PublicationDate	2014-10-28
Publisher	Anchor
ReleaseDate	2014-10-28
Studio	Anchor

Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

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