Helen Castor.
HELEN CASTOR: JOAN OF ARC BIOGRAPHY
JOAN OF ARC (2014)
A portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Castor FRSL (born 1968) is a British historian of the medieval and Tudor period and a BBC broadcaster. She took her undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she subsequently taught. Her books include Blood and Roses (2004) and She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (2010). Programmes she has presented include BBC Radio 4's Making History and She-Wolves on BBC Four. Her most recent book is The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (2024).
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