The Virgin Warrior
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The Virgin Warrior by Larissa Juliet Taylor
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 to let her lead a disheartened army into battle. In the process she changed the course of European history. In "The Virgin Warrior", Larissa Juliet Taylor paints a vivid portrait of Joan as a self-confident, charismatic and supremely determined figure, whose sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders. The drama of Joan's life is set against a world where visions and witchcraft were real, where saints could appear to peasants, battles and sieges decided the fate of kingdoms and rigged trials could result in burning at the stake. Yet in her short life, Joan emboldened the French soldiers and villagers with her strength and resolve. A difficult, inflexible leader, she defied her accusers and enemies to the end. From her early years to the myths and fantasies that have swelled since her death, Taylor teases out a nuanced and engaging story of the truly irresistible 'ordinary' girl who rescued France.
"'If you have been looking for one book that explains how this remarkable teenage girl could accomplish all that she achieved, then this is it' Mack P. Holt, author of The French Wars of Religion 'This is an absorbing book that is almost impossible to put down.' Frederic J. Baumgartner, author of France in the Sixteenth Century 'This fine biography brings Joan fully to life not as a symbol for other eras but as a remarkable flesh and blood woman, who shaped her country and her times.'" Keith P. Luria, North Carolina State University"
Larissa Juliet Taylor is Associate Professor of History at Colby College. She is the author of the award-winning Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France and Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth Century Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300114584 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300114583 |
| Titel | The Virgin Warrior |
| Autor | Larissa Juliet Taylor |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Yale University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2009-10-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 320 |
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