“...The Countess drew her eldest daughter's head to her and kissed her, simultaneously stabbing her with a dagger. Isabella fell without screaming. At the sa...
It’s a strange question, the reader will say; Jeanne was long ago forgiven and canonized; a lot of books have been written about her - both pious and “conspi...
Michel Tournier (born 1924) is a renowned French writer and member of the Académie Goncourt. In the novel “Eleazar or the Spring and the Bush,” he tells the ...
History and legends, facts and fiction, the captivating image of the heroine and the crown of martyrdom - all this is Joan of Arc. What is the phenomenon of ...
The trilogy “Faces of Saints from Jesus to Us” by the Russian writer and philosopher D.S. Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) includes the books “Paul. Augustine" (1936...
The book by Vladimir Raitses is a study conducted in two closely related directions: on the one hand, the legendary history of Joan of Arc as a socio-psychol...
"Was Joan of Arc burned or not?" - is a fascinating book that reveals to the reader the mysterious and emotional story of the life of an outstanding French hero...
At the beginning of the 15th century, France and England were at war. They had been fighting for more than fifty years, but could not resolve disputes over t...
With the passion and grace that mark her bestselling novels of women and faith, Mary Gordon contemplates one of history's earliest and most powerful femal...
“Whoever loves me, follow me!” – with this cry she was the first to rush into battle. They followed her, they believed her, she was idolized by the most desp...
It was the ninety-first year of the Hundred Years' War. Jeanne was seventeen. The French people suffered immensely, and the country was threatened with disas...
This novel combines attempts to answer two questions: first, what kind of people surrounded Joan of Arc and why did they first recognize her uniqueness and t...