The Girl in White Armor (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- First Published: 1927
- Time of Work: The early 1400’s
- Setting: Northern France
- Principal Characters: Joan of Arc, Jacques d’Arc, Jean, Durand Laxart, Bertrand de Poulengy, Jean de Metz, Charles VII, Georges de la Trémouille, Pierre Cauchon, Manchon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teenagers, France or French people, Faith, Fifteenth century, Soldiers, Martyrs or martyrdom, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Torture, Middle Ages, Biography, Hundred Years’ War
- Locales: France
Form and Content
In The Girl in White Armor: The Story of Joan of Arc, Albert Bigelow Paine has written a popular history of an astonishing story. Over the course of twenty-one chapters, he documents the life of an illiterate peasant girl who led armies against the English occupiers of France, who instigated the crowning of King Charles VII, and who was finally captured, tried, and burned alive. All these events took place over a period of two-and-a-half years while Joan was still a teenager.
In the first two chapters, Paine briefly writes on Joan’s early...
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