Joan of arc : A history / Helen Castor.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Castor, Helen, author.

Contributor:

Flosnik, Anne.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (9 audio files) : digital

Edition:

Unabridged.

Place of Publication:

Old Saybrook : Tantor Audio, 2015.

System Details:

Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.

digital stereo

audio file

Summary:

Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castor's Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one-not Joan herself, nor the people around her-princes, bishops, soldiers, or peasants-knew what would happen next.

Participant:

Narrator: Anne Flosnik.

Notes:

Unabridged.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781494593056

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.