The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc

by Larissa Juliet Taylor

Book Overview

France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life has been so endlessly cast and recast that we have lost sight of the remarkable girl at the heart of it--a teenaged peasant girl who, after claiming to hear voices, convinced the French king...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300168950
• ISBN13: 9780300168952
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"