Joan Of Arc
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Missing FEP
A work of historical biography and Catholic intellectual tradition, Hilaire Belloc's Joan of Arc chronicles the extraordinary life of the fifteenth-century French peasant girl who led armies, crowned a king, and died a martyr at the age of nineteen. Belloc presents Joan's story with the passionate conviction of a devout Catholic historian, arguing that her mission was not merely a military or political phenomenon but a profoundly spiritual one, inseparable from the fate of France and the Church. Written with Belloc's characteristic rhetorical force and lyrical prose, the narrative details the political chaos of the Hundred Years' War and illustrates how one young woman's unshakeable faith reshaped the destiny of a nation. Belloc also uncovers the cynical machinations of the ecclesiastical trial that condemned her, casting it as a corrupt instrument of English political power rather than a genuine act of religious justice. The result is a biography that is at once a work of devotion, a piece of polemical history, and a stirring tribute to one of the most remarkable figures of the medieval world.
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Format: Hardback
Published: 1929, Cassell & Company, Ltd.
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Missing FEP
A work of historical biography and Catholic intellectual tradition, Hilaire Belloc's Joan of Arc chronicles the extraordinary life of the fifteenth-century French peasant girl who led armies, crowned a king, and died a martyr at the age of nineteen. Belloc presents Joan's story with the passionate conviction of a devout Catholic historian, arguing that her mission was not merely a military or political phenomenon but a profoundly spiritual one, inseparable from the fate of France and the Church. Written with Belloc's characteristic rhetorical force and lyrical prose, the narrative details the political chaos of the Hundred Years' War and illustrates how one young woman's unshakeable faith reshaped the destiny of a nation. Belloc also uncovers the cynical machinations of the ecclesiastical trial that condemned her, casting it as a corrupt instrument of English political power rather than a genuine act of religious justice. The result is a biography that is at once a work of devotion, a piece of polemical history, and a stirring tribute to one of the most remarkable figures of the medieval world.