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"Timothy Wilson-Smith's new book takes a new and unique angle on Joan of Arc, not merely giving an account of a life cut short but focusing also on her long history which, at her death in 1431, had just begun. Timothy Wilson-Smith sets the events of Joan's story in the context o…
Main description: For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword-an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years' War that Juliet Barker brings to vivid life in Conquest. Following Agincourt, Henry V's second invasion of France in 14…
"The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In Joan of Arch : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the…
"The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In Joan of Arch : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the…
"The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the …
"The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the …
A study in the courage of three women: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Moments of great intensity in their lives, when each faced a decision that would shape her legacy
