Saint Joan of Arc, 3/4" Sterling Silver Medal$24.95
Born in 1412, Joan D'Arc would eventually be asked by Saint Michael to lead her country into victory over England during the Hundred Years' War. This medal honors her submission to God and His Church's May 1920 recognition of her as a saint. The Sterling Silver medal includes an 18" stainless steel clasp chain.
Saint Joan of Arc Gold Filled Medal$31.95
This 3/4" Saint Joan medal is 1/20 12 karat gold filled and has an 18" gold plated brass chain.
Joan of Arcby Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett (illustrator)
$6.99
Poole's text moves at a fast pace and is as exciting to read as good fiction. Though she frames Joan's life in history, she does not entrap the reader with the enormously complicated politcal machinations of the Hundred Year's War. Rather Poole's treatment is deeply spiritual, focusing on what we know of Joan's life. Readers of this book will understand as never before what faith in God and steadfast courage it took for this illiterate peasant girl, not yet even twenty years old, to follow the advice of the "heavenly Voices," convince a king that she could lead his army--and then take them to victory--and defend her actions before a tribunal of learned men before being betrayed and burned at the stake.
The evocative power of Poole's text is echoed with Barrett's haunting paintings--from tapestry-like tableaux to heart-pounding battle scenes to a heavenly host bringing comfort to Joan in prison. Adults will find this Joan of Arc further enriched by the hommage Barrett, a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, has made to famous medieval, renaissance, and pre-Raphaelite art. But you do not have to be an adult or an art historian to appreciate this book. Here is a book that speaks--simply, briefly, memorably--in word and picture to all ages. Here is Joan the innocent girl, the heroine and patriot, the martyr, and ultimately, the saint.
Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arcby Polly Schoyer Brooks
$8.95: Paperback, 178 pages, October 1999, Houghton Mifflin
Brooks tells us of a fifteenth-century France ravaged by war, plague, and religious conflict; of a king who suffered fits of madness and his weak son who made a disappointing successor; and of a peasant girl from the countryside who accomplished what appeared to be miracles by rallying the dispirited French nation with her desire to see the rightful king rule.
Little more than a year after her astounding triumphs-uniting the nation and securing the throne for Charles VII with her victory over the English at Orlean-nineteen-year-old Joan was imprisoned on charges of witchcraft and sorcery, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake. Polly Schoyer Brooks's detailed narrative unveils the spirited young woman who became a patron saint and continues to inspire courage and faith.
Joan of Arc: In Her Own Wordsby Joan of Arc and Willard R. Trask (translator)
$10.36
The story of a young French peasant girl who led an army to help crown a king and was burned at the stake for her efforts has never lost its power to move us. Yet neither movies nor books about Joan of Arc have anything like the impact of her own words--as written here, by turns simple, poetic, inspiring, political, wise, and passionate.
Joan of Arcby Diane Stanley
$12.80: Hardback, 40 pages, September 1998, Morrow Junior
In this soberly respectful, impressively researched and beautifully illustrated telling of the story of Joan of Arc, Diane Stanley has achieved a remarkable tour de force. Not only are her lucid acrylic paintings reminiscent of medieval manuscript illuminations both in their craftsmanship and spiritual content, but her words make us understand and sympathize with the religious faith and patriotic fervor of the Maid of Orleans. Every quote in her retelling of Joan's brave leadership of the French army to victory over the English is taken from the transcripts of Joan's eventual trial for heresy. Stanley makes us understand Joan's piety and the awesome achievements of this peasant girl, only 13 at the time of her first visions. This work is an admirable achievement.
Joan of Arc : By Herself and Her Witnessesby Regine Pernoud
$13.56: Paperback, 312 pages, September 1994, Scarbrough House Publishers
One feels closer to Joan in these pages than in any modern biographies.
Joan of Arcby Mark Twain
$14.95, paperback, 452 pages, 1989, Ignatius Press
Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 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. He 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, the French and the English. A remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers.
"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none." - Mark Twain
Joan of Arc: A Military Leaderby Kelly Devries
$19.56: Hardcover, 256 pages, November 1999, Sutton Publishing
Where previous works have concentrated on the religious and feminist aspects of Joan of Arc's career, this is the first to address the vital issue of what it was that made her the heroine she became. A new angle on one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of history, "Joan of Arc" is a must have book for anyone interested in the Middle Ages and the phenomenon of the girl warrior.
Joan Of Arc: Her Storyby Regine Pernoud, Marie-Veronique Clin, Jeremy Duquesnay Adams (translator)
$19.56: Hardback, 300 pages, December 1998, Saint Martin's Press
$11.96: Paperback, 330 pages, November 1999, Saint Martin's Press
The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography, supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible for English-language readers. -Wendy Smith
Joan of Arc : The Early Debateby Deborah A. Fraioli
$75.00: Hardback, 256pg, February 2000, Boydell & Brewer