Название: Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Автор: Gail Orgelfinger
Издательство: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 0271082186
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 245
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 25,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
In this book, Gail Orgelfinger examines the ways in which English historians and illustrators depicted Joan of Arc over a period of four hundred years, from her capture in 1429 to the early nineteenth century.
The variety of epithets attached to Joan of Arc—from “witch” and “Medean virago” to “missioned Maid” and “shepherd's child”—attests to England's complicated relationship with the saint. While portrayals of Joan in English popular culture evolved over the centuries, they do not follow a straightforward trajectory from vituperation to adulation. Focusing primarily on descriptions of Joan's captivity, trial, and execution, this study shows how the exigencies of politics and the demands of genre shaped English retellings of her military successes, gender transgressions, and execution at the hands of her English enemies.