Dec 22, 2009

Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc

At a glance:

Author: Sir Winston Churchill
First Published: 1956
Time of Work: 1422–1431
Setting: France
Principal Characters: Joan of Arc, Charles VII, Dunois, Henry VI
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Teenagers, France or French people, Faith, Witches or witchcraft, Fifteenth century, Soldiers, Martyrs or martyrdom, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Middle Ages, Biography, Hundred Years’ War
Locales: France

Form and Content

Joan of Arc is taken verbatim from the first volume of Winston Churchill’s four-volume work entitled A History of the English-speaking Peoples (1956–1958). Lauren Ford adds seventeen full-color pictures interspersed throughout the text, which is itself only forty-six pages long. The biography begins with the death of King Henry V in 1422 and ends with the execution of Joan of Arc in 1431.

Churchill concentrates more on the person of Joan of Arc than on the military and political events of this part of the Hundred Years’ War. He...

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Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc

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Form and Content

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