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Historical Studies
Historical studies of Joan of Arc, preserved both for their scholarship and for the changing ways each age has understood her life.
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Texts
Joan of Arc — Ronald Sutherland GowerRonald Sutherland Gower's illustrated 1893 biography of Joan of Arc, a documentary-minded Victorian study written before her canonization.The Life of Joan of Arc — Anatole FranceAnatole France's complete two-volume historical life of Joan of Arc, a learned and skeptical 1908 interpretation translated into English by Winifred Stephens.The Story of Joan of Arc — Andrew LangAndrew Lang's concise 1906 life of Joan of Arc, written for younger readers but grounded in the trial records and alive to the strangeness of her achievement.