DescriptionJoan of Arc is one of the most enigmatic figures of history, and interest in the eccentric French maiden has never ceased since she was burnt on the stake in 1431. Siobhan Nash-Marshall tells her lively story, and interprets her life from the spiritual point of view. She traces Joan's life as the response to a vocation, which created unheard of personal attraction and power. From grown soldiers to the king of France the mighty of her time followed her orders, believable today only because Joan's trial is extraordinarily well documented.
Using the plentiful first-hand material on Joan's life, trial and death this book offers a sensitive approach to the spiritual persona of Joan within the framework of the religious thinking of her time. A new and inspiring focus is given to the core of Joan's struggle, the question of nationhood -- the human longing for unity and reality of diversity.
