Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

ISBN-13: 9780815336648 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 342 str.

Bonnie Wheeler; Charles T. Wood

Opis

Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid could have led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to be found a saint. This volume of essays employs tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reveal why veterans of her military campaigns found her to have been a remarkable commander; why so many of her contemporaries, churchman and poets alike, found it possible to accept the validity of her mission and her voices; why modern politicians and artists have used her as a symbol; and why the Catholic Church finally decided to canonize her in 1920.

Recenzje

"The strength of these essays is in the resistance they demonstrate to the thick layers of scholarship and tradition that have often only increased the distance between us and the truth about Joan." -- Speculum
"This is the essential modern starting point for Joan of Arc studies...a volume of immense variety and richness and the editors must be congratulated for doing the scholarly and general community such a service in regard to the evergreen topic of Joan the Maid." -- Parergon

Spis treści

Preface Charles T. Wood Joan of Arc's Sword in the Stone Bonnie Wheeler A Woman as Leader of Men:Joan of Arc's Military Career Kelly DeVries Joan of Arc's Mission and the Lost Record of Her Interrogation at Poitiers Charles T. Wood True Lies: Transvestitism and Idolotry in the Trial of Joan of Arc Susan Schibanoff Was Joan of Arc a Sign of Charles VII's Innocence? Jean Fraikin Transcription Errors in texts of Joan of Arc's History Oliver Bouzy I Do Not Name to You the Voice of St. Michael: The Identification of Joan of Arc's Voicess Karen Sullivan Readers of the Lost Arc: Secrecry, Specularity, and Speculation in the Trial of Joan of Arc Steven Weiskopf Joan of Arc and Christine De Pizan: the Symbisosis of Two Warriors in the Dite de Jehanne d'Arc Christine McWebb Pr Pas Pc: Christine De Pizan's pro-Joan propaganda Anne D. Lutkus and Julia M. Walker Speaking of Angels: A Fifteenth Century Bishop in Defense of Joan of Arc's Mystical Voices Jean Marie Pinzino Martin Le Franc's Commentary on Jean Gerson's Treatise on Joan of Arc Gertrude H. merkle Why Joan of Arc Never Became an Amazon Henry Angsar Kelly Jeanne Au Cinema Kevin J. Harty The Joan Phenomenon and the French Right Nadia Margolis Epilogue: Joan of Arc or the Survival of the People Regien Pernoud Appenices Joan of Arc and Her Doctors Marie-Veronique Clin Aspects of Material Culture in the Paris Region at the Tiem of Joan of Arc Nicole Meyer Rodrigues

O autorze

Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She writes about medieval literature and culture, is series editor of The New Middle Ages, and also edits the journal Arthuriana. Charles T. Wood is Daniel Webster Professor of History, emeritus at Dartmouth College and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He is the author of Joan of Arc and Richard III: Saints, Sex and Government in the Middle Ages.