"Joan of Arc, Her Story"

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The paper discusses how Joan of Arc has been made a canonized Catholic saint, portrayed by writers as a victim of persecution, been hailed a feminist military leader, and even diagnosed posthumously as a schizophrenic. The paper explains that the authors of "Joan of Arc, Her Story" strive to provide a lay reader with access to the documents that show Joan as she was, allowing history and the reader's imagination to judge her legacy. The paper describes the three sections of which the book is comprised.

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"The young French girl Joan of Arc only lived to see her 19th birthday. She did not even attain the age of adulthood by the modest standards of her own era. Yet Joan's brief life has spawned many historical and literary interpretations, often reaching far beyond the touchingly simple facts known about her actual existence. Joan has been made a canonized Catholic saint, portrayed by writers as a victim of persecution by one of the earliest known political witch hunts, been hailed a feminist military leader, and even diagnosed posthumously as a schizophrenic. In Joan of Arc, Her Story by Regine Pernoud and co-author Marie-Vbronique Clin, the authors attempt to let Joan speak for herself in the extant historical documents of the period."

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• Pernoud, Regine with Marie-Vbronique Clin. Joan of Arc, Her Story. Revised and translated by Jeremy du Quesnay Adams. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. pp336. $11.96 soft cover. xvi+207pp. 69.95 cloth.

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