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Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
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The Maid..
Review date: 2004-01-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
My interest in Joan of Arc follows 2 films on tv recently and regretting not paying enough attention to history in school.
I felt the need to know more about this strong facinating women and this book did exactly that.
Listening to Joan telling me what she was being told and her belief in gods word, and having the strength, belief and conviction to carry out his advice at such at young age was really amazing.I sometimes felt with the book i was standing next to her as she spoke or wrote some of the letters.
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Joan of Arc, I believe she was a Christian
Review date: 1999-06-30 Rating: 10 out of 10
Actually, what resparked my interest in Joan of Arc was a an A&E documentary and the recent made for TV movie. As usual, I am always more impressed with the real story, which usually comes from a book. This is also my first book about Joan of Arc and I wanted to get something that would tell me about her without boring me and getting me caught up in long-winded frivolous details. This book is well-written, compiled, whatever and straight and to the point. It told me everything I wanted to know about Joan. I was impressed that she would not allow her soldiers, accomplices to use means of the occult to heal her wound when she was on the battlefield. Her last words when she was burning at the stake, "Jesus! Jesus!" would have been my exact same last words if I were ever God forbid in such a position. Those are always my words when I'm going through trials. What also amazed was that in the 1400s there were people, taking down Joans words, I mean actually writing them down and saving them, so we could have them here today, in the 1990s to interpret for ourselves. Now that's history.
This short book helps give Joan's story a more human view.
Review date: 1998-08-19 Rating: 8 out of 10
This is a wonderful little book, chronicling Joan's life, her Loire campaign and finally her trial and demise. The book is set up in a journal-type format, with headings for each day. The quotes which follow are generally taken from trial manuscripts, and their genuineness cannot be doubted. The book gives you a sense that you're reading the personal memoirs of Joan, and the close personal feeling makes it all the more enjoyable. Though it is not filled with as much historical minutiae as other, drier works, this book is simply wonderful. My only criticism would be that the book does not offer many quotes which cannot be found in other works. Also, there are sections that are not truly quotes, but more precisely summaries of Joan's actions set in her own point of view. This subtracts a bit from the sense that you're actually reading her own words. I do, however, treasure this book for its familiar feel and its granting a voice to the martyred St. Joan.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Of Arc,Saint Joan
Creators:
Willard R. Trask (Editor)
Recording label: Turtle Point Press
Manufacturer: Turtle Point Press
EAN: 9781885983084
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 944.026092
ISBN: 1885983085
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 175
Publication date: 1996-05-01
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Published)