Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner (University of California Press, 1981 ISBN 0-520-22464-7) is a book about Joan of Arc, focusing on how she has been perceived by others over the centuries and how that perception has shaped her image.

Contents

Part One – the Life and Death of Jeanne la Pucelle

Part Two – The Afterlife of Joan of Arc


Reception

Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism is widely used as a college level textbook in courses related to Joan of Arc.

The book has been reviewed in Newsweek, The New York Review of Books, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the American Historical Review.

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