Joan of Arc

A focused biography recounts the life of a young village maiden who, claiming divine guidance, persuades leaders to back her, inspires military successes that lead to a monarch's coronation, and later falls into enemy hands, undergoing imprisonment, a politically charged trial, and execution before being posthumously cleared. The narrative relies on trial minutes, chronicles, and contemporary scholarship to reconstruct her family background, campaigns, capture, legal proceedings, and rehabilitation, and is accompanied by illustrations, appendices on her reception in history and poetry, and bibliographic notes.