The Maid Of Orleans
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Author | : Sven Stolpe |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1586171526 |
This acclaimed work on the life and mysticism of Joan of Arc is considered by historians as one of the most convincing, well researched and best written accounts of the Maid of Orleans. Stolpe vividly creates the contemporary situation in France during Joan's time, evaluates the latest research on her life, and arrives at an original and authentic portrait - one that is also a work of literature. Stolpe sees Joan of Arc as primarily a mystic, and her supreme achievement and lasting significance not so much in a mission to deliver France - though important - but in her sharing in the Passion of Christ. By shifting the emphasis from the national to the universal, Stolpe brings the saint closer to the modern reader. His scholarship is informed by a profound understanding and sympathy for the Maid, giving his essentially sober work the absorbing interest of a novel. As one critic stated, "Stolpe succeeds in producing a very tense interest, so that it is impossible to lay it aside until the last word is reached." This work should do much to present a new evaluation and appreciation of the life and mysticism of St. Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans.
Author | : Friedrich Henning |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Emma Robinson |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1849 |
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Release | : 1815 |
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Author | : Friedrich Schiller |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : Friedrich Henning |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2022-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The life story of Joan of Arc, as told in this book, closely follows the historical facts as well as the official records bearing upon her trial and burning for "heresy, relapse, apostasy, and idolatry." It is naturally divided into two parts. First, the simple pastoral life of the shepherd maiden of Domremy, which is charmingly portrayed; the visions of her favorite saints; the heavenly voices which commissioned her to raise the English siege of Orleans and crown the Dauphin; her touching farewell to her home; and, secondly, the part she played as the Maid of Orleans in the stirring events of the field; the victories which she achieved over the English and their Burgundian allies; the raising of the siege; the coronation of the ungrateful Dauphin at Rheims; her fatal mistake in remaining in his service after her mission was accomplished; her capture at Compiègne; her infamous sale to the English by Burgundy; her more infamous trial by the corrupt and execrable Cauchon; and her cruel martyrdom at the stake.
Author | : Friedrich Schiller |
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Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1842 |
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Author | : Jules Michelet |
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Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1858 |
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Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3849672530 |
Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive. She was burned to death when she was only nineteen: she was not seventeen when she first led the armies of France to victory, and delivered her country from the English.