Joan of Arc and her time. Essays on 15th-century France.
Deer| N° d'inventaire | 23026 |
| Format | 15.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 380 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782204137546 |
For the centenary of the canonization of the Maid of Orléans, the world's greatest specialist tells us about Joan as she was, multiplying her in all the dimensions of her time. An antidote to instrumentalizations. Did Joan of Arc appear in her time as the incarnation of resistance against the invader? Was she the military strategist that chronicles have retained? Did she die as the image of holiness that the Church eventually enshrined? How did her contemporaries, King Charles VII and his court who struggled to follow her, Henry VI and his troops who fought her, Abbé Cauchon who conducted her trial for heresy, perceive her? As an enlightened madwoman, an inspired prophetess, a heroic warrior, or a providential figure? On the occasion of the centenary of Joan of Arc's canonization, Philippe Contamine returns, with his internationally recognized scholarship, to the construction of the legend of the Maid of Orléans. Exhuming forgotten archives and unpublished documents, the immense historian in him separates truth from myth. He places Joan in her time, between the chaos and fracas of the Hundred Years' War. He restores her to the chivalric universe that animated Europe at the time. He makes her the key to a cultural fresco of the most pre-modern period of the Middle Ages. A living tableau, essential for deciphering and understanding the French imagination.
For the centenary of the canonization of the Maid of Orléans, the world's greatest specialist tells us about Joan as she was, multiplying her in all the dimensions of her time. An antidote to instrumentalizations. Did Joan of Arc appear in her time as the incarnation of resistance against the invader? Was she the military strategist that chronicles have retained? Did she die as the image of holiness that the Church eventually enshrined? How did her contemporaries, King Charles VII and his court who struggled to follow her, Henry VI and his troops who fought her, Abbé Cauchon who conducted her trial for heresy, perceive her? As an enlightened madwoman, an inspired prophetess, a heroic warrior, or a providential figure? On the occasion of the centenary of Joan of Arc's canonization, Philippe Contamine returns, with his internationally recognized scholarship, to the construction of the legend of the Maid of Orléans. Exhuming forgotten archives and unpublished documents, the immense historian in him separates truth from myth. He places Joan in her time, between the chaos and fracas of the Hundred Years' War. He restores her to the chivalric universe that animated Europe at the time. He makes her the key to a cultural fresco of the most pre-modern period of the Middle Ages. A living tableau, essential for deciphering and understanding the French imagination.