Joan of Arc and Spirituality

Joan of Arc is an unusual saint. Canonized in 1920 as a virgin, she died in 1431 as a condemned heretic. Uneducated, militant, and youthful, she obeyed 'Voices' that counselled her to pursue an unprecedented vocation. The various trial records provide a wealth of evidence about how Joan and others understood her spiritual life. This collection explores multiple facets of Joan's prayerful life. Two-thirds of the essays focus on Joan in her own time; the later chapters study Joan's formative influence upon modern women. Taken together, these essays offer new perspectives on the heroism of Joan's original way of sanctity.

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Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

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JOAN'S OWN SPIRITUALITY The Mortal Body as Divine Proof: A Spiritual-Physical Blazon of Joan of Arc; N.Margolis The Virgin Mary and the 'Voices' of Joan of Arc; A.W.Astell St. Joan and Confession: Internal and External Forum; H.Ansgar Kelly Joan of Arc and Lex Privata: a Spirit of Freedom in the Law; J.M.Pinzino Joan of Arc's Call to Crusade; K.DeVries CLERICAL PERCEPTIONS OF JOAN'S SPIRITUALITY IN HER OWN TIME Jeanne and the Clergy; G.H.Tavard Judging Women of Spirit: From Female Mystics to Joan of Arc; D.Fraioli Gerson A Reconsideration of Jean Gerson's Attitude toward Joan of Arc in Light of his Views on Popular Devotion; Y.Mazour-Matusevich Jean Gerson, The Shunammite, and the Maid; B.P.McGuire JOAN'S SECULAR CONTEMPORARIES Christine de Pizan's Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc: History, Feminism, and God's Grace; H.M.Arden En l'honneur de la Pucelle: Ritualizing Joan the Maid in Fifteenth Century Orléans; V.L.Hamblin JOAN AS MODEL The Princess and the Maid of Orléans: Sculpting Spirituality During the July Monarchy; N.M.Heimann Le Triomphe de l'humilite: Thérèse of Lisieux and 'la nouvelle Jeanne'; D.L.Despres Force of Fragility? Simone Weil and Two Faces of Joan of Arc; A.Piruccello She Gets Inside Your Head: Joan of Arc and Contemporary Women's Spirituality; A.Llewellyn Barstow