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1) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 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...
3) Joan of Arc
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The animated true story of the peasant girl who led the Dauphin's forces to victory over the English armies in France, only to be sold to the enemy, tried as a witch, and burned at the stake.
5) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Wishbone classics volume 4
Language
English
Description
Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important, but also his best work. Twain spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work, and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides:...
6) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico Kid
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover
7) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse. In medieval poetic forms, the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc's life--her family, the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood--explore issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became...
12) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
14) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A history of Joan of Arc, the woman who led France to victory against the English and who was cannonized as a saint by the Catholic Church for her faith.
15) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
16) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Joan of Arc, a 15th-century French peasant girl rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. When a new king is crowned, Joan's influence grows and makes him wary of her power, ultimately betraying her to martyrdom.
18) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
19) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the experiences of the peasant girl who led a French army against the English, was burned at the stake for witchcraft, and became a saint.