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| Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 7.75in | 208 pages | ISBN 9780670885374 | 20 Mar 2000 | Viking Adult | 18 - AND UP |
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Eternally fascinating, an enigma no less in our time than in her own, Joan of Arc has haunted Gordon's consciousness since childhood. Who was this girl who came from nowhere, supported an equivocal cause, triumphed for a scant few months, failed as a soldier, vacillated about her vision, died in agony, was refused canonization for five hundred years, yet, ponders Gordon, "stands alone in our imagination for the single-minded triumph of the she--and it must be a she--who feared nothing, knew herself right, and chosen of the Lord?"
Joan of Arc penetrates the popular 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 at the age of seventeen to her capture by the British in 1430, from her vilification as a witch to the formidable legacy of her struggle. Only Gordon--a storyteller the San Francisco Chronicle calls "scintillating"--could breathe life into a figure so ethereal, so puzzling, so human.
Joan of Arc
Acknowledgments
Chronological Table
Intorduction
Chapter I: Of Her Time and Place
Chapter II: Approaching the Throne
Chapter III: Triumphant in Battle, the King's Anointer
Chapter IV: What Kind of Warrior, What Kind of Defeat?
Chapter V: Accused
Chapter VI: Virgin Body
Chapter VII: Food for the Feast
Chapter VIII: Saint John
Notes
“ [A] compelling life story and a shrewd analysis of the mythical uses to which it has been put.”
—The New York Times
“ A large part of the enjoyment here is the highly personal intelligence of Gordon’s prose style.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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