Saint Joan Of Arc

Jeanne d' Arc: a peasant girl when she first heard her voices; a mere teenager when she accomplished the deliverance of Orleans; burned at the stake by the English before her twentieth birthday; canonized a saint. These are the bare details of the life of Joan of Arc. But Joan has been many things to many people since she entered religious and popular history by her martyrdom over five centuries ago. In this study, Shannon Gilreath seeks to strip away the layers of iconography and politicization to reveal the human Joan behind the saint. Without a single unnecessary pen stroke, Gilreath tells the principal events of Joan's story and reflects on the relevance of her life for her contemporary followers. The story of Joan of Arc has captivated the ages. In this concise work, Shannon Gilreath sympathetically, if skeptically at times, captures the essence of Saint Joan of Arc.Gilreath, Shannon is the author of 'Saint Joan Of Arc ', published 2004 under ISBN 9781413709216 and ISBN 1413709214.