Joan of Arc
In France, a nation riven by decades of dynastic conflict, an unlikely hero, a teenage peasant girl named Joan, would rise to the occasion. Guided by the voices of long-dead saints, she donned armor, took up the sword, and led the French army to victory against their English adversaries, thereby bringing the Hundred Years’ War to its final, decisive stage. Although she was deemed a heretic and burned at the stake, in the centuries since her untimely death, her legend has taken on a life of its own.
This is the story of Joan of Arc.
Cover Image: Jeanne D'Arc, painting by Albert Lynch, 1903
Episodes (listed in reverse order)
Joan of Arc at the Stake, painting by Eugène Lenepveu, 1886
Bibliography
Allmand, Christopher. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War C.1300-c. 1450. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Green, David. The Hundred Years War: a People's History. Yale University Press, 2015.
Pernoud, Régine, et al. Joan of Arc: Her Story. St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Pernoud, Régine. Joan of Arc, by Herself and Her Witness. Scarborough House, 1982.
Shopkow, Leah. Joan of Arc: Documents. University of Indiana, https://dmdhist.sitehost.iu.edu.
As her reputation spreads throughout Europe, Joan is captured by the English. After a sham trial, she is found guilty of heresy and burned at the stake. But while Joan herself may have perished, the fight over her legacy had only just begun.