Joan of Arc: In her own words Joan of Arc
Publisher: Turtle Point Press

Actually, this was a very good read. Generally speaking, I don't like the terms masculine and feminine, because they become prescriptive so quickly with regards to gender roles when applied to people. In fact, it's not in her words at all, but what can we do about that. Jan 30, 2012 - Virtually every movie you will see on the legendary French 'freedom fighter' Joan of Arc pits her against the scheming heartless brutal arch-villain and general nasty person John Duke of Bedford. And then I thought of all that was brave and proud and pathetic in poor Nietzsche, and his Nietzsche only praised the warrior; she was the warrior. Oddly, […] Joan of Arc on the Ruggieri, who admits to a particular love for the 15th century, has told interviewers that, over time, he's been asking himself how come, in that time of famine, theft and rape, could a young virgin girl have been left to guard a flock of sheep all on her own. Every word you say, every memory you preserve. When I was a young woman, our general young women president was Ardeth Kapp, a brilliant, adorable woman who, though having no children of her own, felt like a second mother to me. From the play Joan of Lorraine, by Maxwell Anderson, her words serve as a reminder of a young woman committed to her values: 'I know this too now: Every man gives his life for what he believes. May 29, 2010 - Joan lived her short life — she was executed at 19 — in the 15th century, during what we retroactively call the Hundred Years' War between England and France. And Napoleon thrown in too to make matters worse. Show me a person who isn't “obsessed” with their own views, and I'll show you a holy whore, as Frank Zappa would say. 4 days ago - From her own words, we know that Joan's religious life matured experientially beginning at the age of 13 (PCon, I, p. She beat them both at their own antagonistic ideals; she was more gentle than the one, more violent than the other. Jan 6, 2012 - It is said that the reason the French and the English nations do not like one another is because of Joan of Arc. Through the “voice” of the Archangel St. How I came to know Joan of Arc first. Brother of Henry Likely this is because of her perceived role as the representing the 'spirit' of active resistance to aggressive 'British' Imperialism with which some Americans love to identify their own forbears. 5 days ago - Joan of Arc had all that and with this great addition, that she endured poverty as well as admiring it; whereas Tolstoy is only a typical aristocrat trying to find out its secret. Dec 31, 2008 - If you want to hear the voice of Joan, I highly recommend Joan of Arc In Her Own Words, compiled and translated by Willard Trask.