
634. Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3)
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634. Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3) mentions Joan of Arc by Marina Warner and Joan by Helen Castor with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
He is so full of excitement because he has just seen the heroine of the hour, Joan of Arc.
So a month has gone by since this extraordinary moment in the history of France and French military achievements, the liberation of Orléans.
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“Marina Warner writes, Joan was the personification of mobility. She accepted neither her peasant birth nor her female condition, none of the limitations society had provided for her circumscription.”
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“Helen Castor in her book on Joan discusses the events surrounding Joan's leadership and the surrender of Troyes, highlighting the miraculous elements of her story.”
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