Biography: Joan of Arc 11 Articles

by Molly Carter

Joan of Arc may be one of the most famous woman in history. From her visions from God, her bravery on the battlefield and her vicious execution, she is one of the most notable historical figures whose myth lives on today....read more

by Rachel Byers

"There was a legend in Medieval France of a girl dressed in boy clothing who would save France in the very hour of its need" (Williams, 14.) From 1389-1453 France and England fought over who would control the kingdomo...read more

by Phil Hill

You couldn't make it up. Joan of Arc, an uneducated slip of a peasant girl in a man's world, terrorizing France's old enemy England, finally getting captured and put to death as a witch, before 500 years later being made a...read more

by Paul Lines

It was a cold winters day, the 6th January 1412 when Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc) was born to Farmer Jacque and his wife Romee, in the town of Donremy, which was located in the Duchy of Lorraine. In that same year there were...read more

by Dr Sal Levy

The Divinity of Joan of Arc "When I am baffled in some manner, because someone does not wish to credit the things that I speak on the part of God, I retire apart, and I pray to God, complaining that those to whom I spea...read more

by Danielle Friedl

Born into a dark world and spurned on by the voice of God, Joan of Arc is arguably the most studied person of the Middle Ages. Her story began in 1412 near the end of the Hundred Years' War. Her first visions were said t...read more

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by J. Robin Whitley

To understand the importance of Joan of Arc we first have to discuss her setting. As a 15th century woman she was raised a country girl in Doremy, on the eastern border of France. Her father was a small peasant farmer and ...read more

by Little Roman

The visions and voices from god came upon a young teen to save France from the English supremacy. This young girl would be a hero of the Hundred Years War. This French warrior's name was Jeanne d' Arc, or Joan of Arc. She...read more

by S. james-T Ward

Joan of Arc; Jehanne d'Arc born in 1412, in Domr'emy she was executed in Rouen on May 30, 1431. A 15th Century heroine of France; beatified in 1909 canonized as a Saint in 1920. Daughter of Jacques and Isabelle. La ...read more