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Inventing Eleanor

Autor: Michael R. Evans

Número de Páginas: 242

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have been embellished--and even obscured--by myths that have grown up over eight centuries. This process began in her own lifetime, as chroniclers reported rumours of her scandalous conduct on crusade, and has continued ever since. She has been variously viewed as an adulterous queen, a monstrous mother and a jealous murderess, but also as a patron of literature, champion of courtly love and proto-feminist defender of women's rights. Inventing Eleanor interrogates the myths that have grown up around the figure of Eleanor of Aquitaine and investigates how and why historians and artists have invented an Eleanor who is very different from the 12th-century queen. The book first considers the medieval primary sources and then proceeds to trace the post-medieval development of the image of Eleanor, from demonic queen to feminist icon, in historiography and the broader culture.

San Martín de Tours

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Número de Páginas: 176

En un momento en que los Padres del desierto, prinicipalmente en Oriente, seguían buscando la gran lucha, la de la confrontación directa con el demonio, Martín, con toda sencillez, sirve a un esclavo y le limpia los zapatos. La anécdota roza lo ridículo, y él lo sabe; lo que ignora es que está abriendo inmensas perspectivas en la vida cotidiana. Su ejemplo es muy importante, sobre todo porque responde a las necesidades de nuestro tiempo. Más de cuatrocientos municipios y unas cuatro mil parroquias de Francia llevan el nombre de san Martín. A él se le dedican iglesias en el mundo entero. Recordemos, además, que el término «capilla» proviene de la pequeña iglesia en la que se honraba su «capa». Es el momento del desmoronamiento del Imperio Romano. La Iglesia va a tomar a su cargo la reconstrucción de Occidente. Y, en esta tarea, Martín ocupa un lugar prominente, aceptando, contra su voluntad, el obispado de Tours, fundando en Marmoutier la primera abadía de Europa, evangelizando las zonas rurales y creando, en todos los múltiples lugares a los que fue, una vida comunitaria, a la que llamaos la parroquia. En las nuevas circunstancias históricas, Martín fue, y...

La Formation de la France

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Número de Páginas: 128

The Wizard and the Warrior

Autor: Lee G. Bolman , Terrence E. Deal

Número de Páginas: 258

The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning, and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage, and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission. Best-selling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal present the defining moments and experiences of exemplary leaders such as Carly Fiorina, Thomas Keller (head chef of French Laundry), David Neeleman (CEO of Jet Blue), Mary Kay Ash, Warren Buffet, Anne Mulcahy, and Abraham Lincoln3⁄4all of whom have wrested with their own inner warrior and wizard. These engaging, realistic case studies are followed by commentaries that will raise questions and suggest possibilities without rushing to resolution or simple answers.

L'Unité française

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Número de Páginas: 0

Lights of Madness

Autor: Preston Russell

Número de Páginas: 230

Joan of Arc was burned alive in 1431, condemned for her heresy which defied church and worldly authority. Since childhood, she claimed to have heard daily voices from God. These angelic messages miraculously guided Joan to drive the English out of France and end the Hundred Years War. Author Preston Russell traces her extensive trial testimony, seeking to find her own voice from five hundred years ago. He also examines her many faces evolving in world literature, theatre, and film, extending from Shakespeare and Voltaire to Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw. Becoming a world symbol, Joan of Arc has been embraced by Napoleon, Nazi Germany, Marxist ideology, and French political parties. The Catholic Church has also claimed her as a Saint. Competing interpretations have strived to capture her enduring mystery. Was Joan really a military genius--or actually a man--or a mystic, a witch, a liar, a lunatic, medieval religious reformer, fascist, communist, proto-feminist, heretic or saint? With his background as a physician, Dr. Russell concludes with diverse medical attempts to define Joan of Arc. Theories of insanity since Hippocrates are traced through to 20th century psychiatric...

Dictionnaire encyclopédique de Jeanne d'Arc

Autor: Pascal-raphaël Ambrogi , Mgr Dominique Le Tourneau

Número de Páginas: 3621

« Messire Dieu premier servi » C'est peut-être en raison de cette citation célèbre prêtée à sainte Jeanne d'Arc que le Nonce Apostolique en France pouvait avoir compétence à écrire quelques mots pour accompagner la publication d'un ouvrage sur cette grande sainte française. Cet ouvrage est d'abord une indéniable somme encyclopédique de connaissances, recherchant tous azimuts ce qui a pu s'écrire, se penser ou se dire de La Pucelle. Pour cela il sera sûrement une mine de renseignements et d'indications où puiser l'inspiration nécessaire en vue de recherches ultérieures, mais il pourra être aussi une source de références pour vérifier l'état des connaissances sur le sujet. En explorant la vie de la sainte à son époque, mais aussi dans cette seconde vie qui s'étend de sa mort terrestre jusqu'à nos jours, laquelle ne semble pas vouloir se terminer, image certaine de la vie éternelle, on ne peut qu'être frappé par la vigueur toute divine dont une vie humaine pleine de Dieu peut témoigner. La chose la plus étonnante concernant Jeanne de Domremy passe souvent inaperçue : ce que nous apprenons d'elle de plus certain nous est rapporté non par un...

Joan of Arc and Spirituality

Autor: Bonnie Wheeler , A. Astell

Número de Páginas: 295

Joan of Arc is an unusual saint. Canonized in 1920 as a virgin, she died in 1431 as a condemned heretic. Uneducated, militant, and youthful, she obeyed 'Voices' that counselled her to pursue an unprecedented vocation. The various trial records provide a wealth of evidence about how Joan and others understood her spiritual life. This collection explores multiple facets of Joan's prayerful life. Two-thirds of the essays focus on Joan in her own time; the later chapters study Joan's formative influence upon modern women. Taken together, these essays offer new perspectives on the heroism of Joan's original way of sanctity.

From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution

Autor: Sarah Fishman

Número de Páginas: 297

In the decades after World War II, French ideas about gender and family life underwent dramatic changes, laying the groundwork for the sexual revolution of the 1960s. This book offers a broad view of changing lives and ideas about love, courtship, marriage, giving birth, parenting, childhood, and adolescence in France from the Vichy regime to the sexual revolution of 1960s.

Tout Matisse

Autor: Claudine Grammont

Número de Páginas: 1111

Ce dictionnaire Matisse est le premier consacré à l'un des peintres majeurs du XXe siècle, qui fut tout autant graveur, dessinateur et sculpteur de génie. Très prisé du grand public, le chef de file du fauvisme continue de jouir d'un rayonnement exceptionnel en France et dans le monde, comme en témoignent les innombrables expositions qui lui sont consacrées. L'ouvrage présente l'ensemble des connaissances sur son oeuvre et sa vie à travers plus de 1000 entrées portant aussi bien sur ses créations que sur les personnes, les lieux et les concepts qui leur sont rattachés. Il traite d'environ 270 peintures, sculptures, gouaches découpées, décors ou réalisations architecturales, présentés et étudiés en fonction du parcours de Matisse et de l'évolution de son art. Plus de 500 entrées sont consacrées aux multiples amis, artistes, collaborateurs, écrivains, marchands et éditeurs qui ont suivi sa carrière, se sont intéressés à son oeuvre ou ont été influencés par elle, sans oublier les femmes qui furent ses confidentes et ses inspiratrices. Ces relations professionnelles, amicales ou sentimentales sont ici racontées à partir des témoignages et...

La chambre des dames

Autor: Jeanne Bouri

Número de Páginas: 254

L'humain au coeur de la création de valeur

Autor: Henri Savall , Véronique Zardet

Número de Páginas: 362

Dans la période actuelle de turbulence économique et sociale, les impacts sur l’évolution du travail sont nombreux. Les entreprises et organisations, notamment les très petites et moyennes entreprises (TPME), ont besoin de développer de nouvelles compétences afin de consolider leur survie-développement à long terme. C’est en stimulant le potentiel humain que les gérant(e)s des TPME parviendront à créer de la valeur socio-économique. Cet ouvrage permet de mettre en lumière le besoin qu’ont les pouvoirs publics, les élus, les entreprises et organisations, les acteurs d’un territoire, de mesurer plus précisément ce que les investissements incorporels d’une TPME génèrent comme développement sur un territoire. La 36e édition du Colloque d’Automne de l’ISEOR rassemble un large éventail d’acteurs concernés par les enjeux de la prospérité et du management comme source de création de valeur socio-économique et de développement humain : iaelyon, Université Jean Moulin ; Le CNAM ; Opco des Entreprises de Proximité (France) ; EADA Business School (Espagne) ; Elmhurst University (États-Unis) ; Université de Málaga (Espagne) ; Fondation « Henri...

La dama de Europa

Autor: Ara Antón

Número de Páginas: 475

Leonor de Aquitania, la mujer más poderosa del momento, emprende un viaje a Castilla para preparar la boda de su nieta con Luis de Francia. Nada la detendrá en su empeño por ser la Señora de Europa. Leonor de Aquitania, reina de Inglaterra y Francia, viaja a Castilla acompañada de su amigo y confidente, el druida Blédhri, que quiere dejar por escrito los recuerdos de la azarosa vida de la reina. El viaje es largo y pesado, pero nada arredra a la gran reina, quien ha tenido que sortear inconvenientes y peligros de todas clases para cumplir con la misión que su destino y su férrea voluntad le tenían reservado: ser la Señora de Europa. Durante su viaje Leonor rememora su vida: su boda, las difíciles relaciones y divorcio con Luis VII de Francia; su matrimonio con Enrique II Plantagenet, el desarrollo de la Segunda y Tercera Cruzadas, las vidas de sus once hijos y las anécdotas ocurridas durante el camino. Ara Antón nos introduce en la fascinante Edad Media, una época dura, con continuas luchas y conflictos políticos, en una tierra de costumbres muy arraigadas, donde el honor y la búsqueda de la misión personal estaban por encima de la propia vida de Leonor, una mujer ...

Comment travailler ensemble ? Défis de l'intergénération

Autor: Henri Savall , Véronique Zardet

Número de Páginas: 432

De nombreuses observations ont fait l’objet de théories et d’ouvrages sur ce thème qui touche toutes les entreprises et organisations. Le management intergénérationnel soulève la question de l’impact des stéréotypes et préjugés liés à l’âge sur le management des personnes. Il a été mis de côté ces a priori pour faciliter l’échange entre générations en mettant en commun les compétences et les expériences innovantes. Nous avons aussi mis en évidence les impacts du management socio-économique innovant. Cet ouvrage permet d’ouvrir de nouvelles réflexions pour mettre en valeur la diversité générationnelle comme facteur essentiel de performance durable. La 31e édition du Colloque d’Automne de l’ISEOR rassemble un large éventail d’acteurs concernés par les enjeux de la prospérité, du management comme source de création de valeur socio-économique et de développement humain : CNAM Paris-LIRSA, HEC Paris, iaelyon – Université Jean Moulin, Institut National des Formations Notariales, La République En Marche (LAREM), SEAM Inc., Minneapolis (États-Unis), St. Scholastica College (États-Unis), Université de Balamand (Liban), Université ...

La chambre de dames

Autor: Jeanne Bourin

Número de Páginas: 252

The Mission of Joan of Arc

Autor: Joan M. Edmunds

Número de Páginas: 178

"People write biographies today without the faintest idea that great spiritual powers are at work in human history." --Rudolf Steiner Almost six centuries have passed since the death of Joan of Arc, but an enduring fascination with her life continues to generate new studies, adding to the huge number of books and articles on her life. Those by reputable historians and biographers have recounted the many known facts, based mostly on the surviving fifteenth-century documents. Whereas historians have firmly established Joan's central role in expelling the English from French soil, the real mystery of her achievements remains unexplained. Moreover, Joan Edmunds contends that this key mystery cannot be resolved by relying solely on orthodox historical methods. Basing her work on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual-scientific findings--which first revealed the true significance of Joan's mission--Edmunds explores the mystery of the Maid of Orleans' unique personality. She shows how, while under the guidance and direction of the Archangel Michael, and through her ultimate martyrdom, Joan of Arc was instrumental in bringing to birth the forces needed for the next vital step in human spiritual...

Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2

Autor: Jane Chance

Número de Páginas: 527

Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines—including literature, philology, history, archaeology, art history, theology or religious studies, and philosophy—each essay delves into one woman’s life, intellectual contributions, and efforts to succeed in a male-dominated field. Together, these extraordinary personal histories constitute a new standard reference that speaks to a growing interest in women’s roles in the development of scholarship and the academy. The collection begins in the eighteenth century with Elizabeth Elstob and continues to the present, and includes—among more than seventy profiles—such important figures as Anna Jameson, Lina Eckenstein, Georgiana Goddard King, Eileen Power, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Whitelock, Susan Mosher Stuard, Marcia Colish, and Caroline Walker Bynum, among others.

Women Medievalists and the Academy

Autor: Jane Chance

Número de Páginas: 1124

"Pioneering. . . . An important and timely collection that profiles the lives and professional careers of women medievalists in the last centuries."--Maureen Mazzaoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lumière du Moyen Age

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Número de Páginas: 179

Le Moyen Age, ère de ténèbres : telle est l'image que nous avons tous gardée de nos études secondaires. Les bâtisseurs de cathédrales ont été longtemps présentés comme des barbares et les auditeurs de saint Thomas d'Aquin comme des naïfs. C'est contre ces jugements préfabriqués que se dresse Régine Pernoud. Elle révèle le Moyen Age dans sa "lumière". Elle nous fait connaître sa richesse littéraire et son essor artistique, mais aussi ce qu'on connaît le moins : l'intérêt porté alors aux sciences et à la médecine. La vie quotidienne même portait la marque d'une civilisation déjà raffinée : l'hygiène - l'usage des "retraits", des bains publics et privés - était plus développée qu'au XVIIe siècle. La hiérarchie sociale reposait essentiellement sur des liens familiaux et il était beaucoup plus facile d'approcher Saint Louis que Louis XIV. Si les hommes avaient généralement l'autorité dans la famille, les femmes avaient des droits qu'elles n'avaient pas dans la société romaine et qu'elles ont reperdus dès le XVIe siècle. {Lumière du Moyen Age}, une découverte fabuleuse d'un temps mal connu où se mêlent le profane et le sacré, où se...

Intercourse

Autor: Andrea Dworkin

Número de Páginas: 310

Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she's best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century. Intercourse enraged as many readers as it inspired when it was first published in 1987. In it, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to "all sex is rape" in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkin's already radical persona.) In her introduction to this twentieth-anniversary edition of Intercourse, Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, discusses the circumstances of Dworkin's untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkin's argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman...

Désormais seul en face de Dieu

Autor: Georges Mathieu

Número de Páginas: 356

Confidences, éloges polémiques, interventions publiques, retours sur ses propres oeuvres, essais, "Désormais seul en face de Dieu" est l'autoportrait esthétique et spirituel d'un grand peintre, dont les fulgurances sublimes, celles du pinceau comme celles de la plume, ont profondément marqué l'art moderne.

Joan of Arc

Autor: Gail Patterson

Número de Páginas: 262

Few individuals in the annals of world history have had so lasting an impact as Joan of Arc, who rallied a country behind her and continues to inspire people today. Although she began life as a peasant, she became a key figure in the latter stages of the Hundred Years' War. As a teenager she experienced visions from God calling her to aid the French king. Her confidence and bearing, along with her fervent adherence to God and her Catholic faith, belied her age and so influenced the monarch that he made her commander of one of his companies. She helped lead the French forces in battle against the English, in turn becoming a national icon. However, she was eventually captured and tried by the English in a trial rife with ecclesiastical and political overtones. Convicted as a heretic, Joan was sentenced and burned at the stake. As a martyr, she gained mythic status and the Roman Catholic Church made her a saint in 1920. This book presents a fascinating study of Joan of Arc's life based on excerpts from John A Mooney's gripping 1919 biography. The overview is augmented by a substantial and selective bibliography, featuring access provided through author, title, and subject indexes.

La Poésie Médiévale Française. Textes Choisis Et Presentés Par Régine Pernoud

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Joan of Arc

Autor: Marina Warner

Número de Páginas: 410

Joan has a unique role in Western imagination--she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc, both as she lived in her own time and as she has "grown" in the human imagination over the five centuries since her death. She has examined the court documents from Joan of Arc's 1431 Inquisition trial for heresy and woven the facts together with an analysis of the histories, biographies, plays, and paintings and sculptures that have appeared over time to honor this heroine and symbol of France's nationhood. Warner shows how the few facts that are known about the woman Joan have been shaped to suit the aims of those who have chosen her as their hero. The book places Joan in the context of the mythology of the female hero and takes note of her historical antecedents, both pagan and Christian and the role she has played up to the present as the embodiment of an ideal, whether as Amazon, saint, child of nature, or personification of virtue.

Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures

Autor: Denise N. Baker

Número de Páginas: 292

This book explores the intersection of the Hundred Years' War and the production of vernacular literature in France and England. Reviewing a range of prominent works that address the war, including those by Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Gower, Langland, and Chaucer, as well as anonymous texts and the records of Joan of Arc's trial, Inscribing the Hundred Years' War In French and English Cultures demonstrates the ways in which late-medieval authors responded to the immediate sociopolitical pressures and participated in the debates about the war. The book also investigates the work literary texts performed in their cultural economy by showing how they influenced the development of French and English national identities. Contributors include John M. Bowers; Ellen C. Caldwell; Susan Crane; Patricia DeMarco; Judith Ferster; Norris Lacy; Anne Lutkus; Earl Jeffrey Richards; Michele Szkilnik; Julia M. Walker; and Robert Yeager.

Joan of Arc

Autor: Kathryn Harrison

Número de Páginas: 422

The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer, and Robert Bresson. Was she a divinely inspired saint? A schizophrenic? A demonically possessed heretic, as her persecutors and captors tried to prove? Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's extraordinary story in its own way, and in Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical inquisition and in the face of her death by burning. Deftly weaving historical fact, myth, folklore, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a compelling narrative, she restores Joan of Arc to her rightful position as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.

The Maid and the Queen

Autor: Nancy Goldstone

Número de Páginas: 455

“Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.” (Laura Miller, Salon.com) Politically astute, ambitious, and beautiful, Yolande of Aragon, queen of Sicily, was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Caught in the complex dynastic battle of the Hundred Years War, Yolande championed the dauphin's cause against the forces of England and Burgundy, drawing on her savvy, her statecraft, and her intimate network of spies. But the enemy seemed invincible. Just as French hopes dimmed, an astonishingly courageous young woman named Joan of Arc arrived from the farthest recesses of the kingdom, claiming she carried a divine message-a message that would change the course of history and ultimately lead to the coronation of Charles VII and the triumph of France. Now, on the six hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc, this fascinating book explores the relationship between these two remarkable women, and deepens our understanding of this dramatic period in...

A Double-Edged Sword

Autor: Brenda E. Novack

Número de Páginas: 373

On first consideration, one might not be inclined to view Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in relation to Jehanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), but Brenda E. Novack does just that. She demonstrates how these three prominent figures who influenced world history all acted in accordance with what they claimed or perceived to be divine sanction of their participation in violence. Taking the reader on a unique exploration of their lives and deaths, Novack identifies significant similarities and differences in notions of divine call and human response conveyed by these personalities and determines how they align or fail to align with the biblical prophetic tradition. Taking Jehanne d'Arc as her foundational study, the author engages important theological issues such as the nature of revelation, evil, and morality. The process culminates in the construction of a model of righteous warfare and human agency presented as a tool for evaluating claims to divinely sanctioned violence and as a potentially effective alternative to an outmoded and currently inadequate just war model. Case studies of Hitler and Bonhoeffer tentatively establish the model's ability to steer humanity away from unnecessary ...

Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes

Autor: Derrick Peterson

Número de Páginas: 379

We are all haunted by histories. They shape our presuppositions and ballast our judgments. In terms of science and religion this means most of us walk about haunted by rumors of a long war. However, there is no such thing as the “history of the conflict of science and Christianity,” and this is a book about it. In the last half of the twentieth century a sea change in the history of science and religion occurred, revealing not only that the perception of protracted warfare between religion and science was a curious set of mythologies that had been combined together into a sort of supermyth in need of debunking. It was also seen that this collective mythology arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by historians involved in many sides of the debates over Darwin’s discoveries, and from there latched onto the public imagination at large. Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes takes the reader on a journey showing how these myths were constructed, collected together, and eventually debunked. Join us for a story of flat earths and fake footnotes, to uncover the strange tale of how the conflict of science and Christianity was written into history.

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader

Autor: Kelly Devries

Número de Páginas: 250

In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. Heavenly voices, she said, had told her to seek out the Dauphin, Charles, so that he might give her an army with which to deliver France from its English occupiers. The ensuing tale of Joan's military success is told here in a gripping and authoritative narrative. Previous works have concentrated on the religious and feminist aspects of Joan's career; this is the first to address the vital issue of what it was that made her the heroine she became. Why did the soldiers of France follow a woman into battle when no troops of the Hundred Years War had done so before, and how was she able to win? This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Middle Ages and the phenomenon of the girl warrior.

Intercourse (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

Número de Páginas: 438

Jeanne d'Arc racontée par Régine Pernoud

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Número de Páginas: 102

La Femme au temps des croisades

Autor: Régine Pernoud

Número de Páginas: 329

Un formidable prolongement de La Femme au temps des cathédrales puisque les croisades ne furent pas seulement affaire de soldats et de batailles. Elles lancèrent sur les mers des familles entières qui allaient s'installer autour des Lieux saints. « Copyright Electre »

Jeanne d'Arc Pour les Nuls

Autor: Alain-gilles Minella

Número de Páginas: 447

Sur les pas de Jeanne, la Pucelle On parle beaucoup de Jeanne d'Arc mais, finalement, que sait-on vraiment d'elle ? Qui était-elle ? À quoi ressemblait-elle ? Pourquoi la surnommait-on la " Pucelle " ? Quelle fut son enfance ? Comment la vie était-elle rythmée dans son village ? Quelle était la place de la religion ? Pourquoi l'a-t-on condamnée ? Comment s'est déroulé son procès ? Comment s'est-elle défendue face aux 50 juges qui voulaient sa mort ? Ce livre vous invitera à entrer dans les coulisses de la vie de la célèbre " bergère ". Vous la suivrez année après année, ferez connaissance avec ses amis, sa famille. Vous entendrez avec elle les voix qui, dès ses 13 ans, lui disent de quitter le village pour aider le roi à reconquérir les parties du territoire occupées par les Anglais et vous partirez avec elle, contre la volonté de ses parents. Vous assisterez à sa rencontre avec un Charles VII découragé et la verrez constituer son armée pour libérer Orléans. Puis vous la sentirez agacer l'entourage royal et, peu à peu, vous irez avec elle de désillusion en désillusion avant la condamnation... et le bûcher. Vingt ans après la mort de Jeanne, vous...