![]() ![]() Visit the Conversations website for more of Richard Fidler's interviews. It reclaims her as a human being, flawed and fascinating, within history and without the varnish of contemporary lunacy. To subscribe to the Conversations podcast, paste into your podcasting application or visit our podcasting page. That’s why Helen Castor’s biography of Joan of Arc matters. You can either listen to each Conversations interview by clicking on the audio or you can download each interview as an mp3 by right-clicking on the blue heading under the audio. JOAN OF ARC A HISTORY by Helen Castor RELEASE DATE: A fresh attempt to put young, willful Joan the Maid squarely back at the center of the French-English drama of early- to mid-15th-century France. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman, a roaring girl fighting the English and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing apart fifteenth-century France. Joan of Arc: A History is published by Allen & Unwin Helen Castor brings us afresh a riveting life of Joan of Arc. 25 years later she was exonerated, and now she is 'Saint Joan', a French national icon and globally recognised heroine. In 15th century France, she was at first believed, and then, burned as a heretic. Joan claimed to be guided by the voice of God. ![]() ![]() Now she's told the story of Joan of Arc, the French maid who led an army into battle, thereby defeating the English and making a man king. ![]() Helen's study of powerful historical women, She-Devils was adapted for TV by the BBC. ![]()
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