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Joan of Arc

The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint

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Beschrijving Joan of Arc

Places Joan in the context of the mythology of the female hero and takes note of her historical antecedents, both pagan and Christian and the role she has played up as the embodiment of an ideal, whether as Amazon, saint, child of nature, or personification of virtue.

ISBN: 9780520224643
Pagina's: 349
Verschenen: 01-01-1999
NUR: 681

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Paperback / softback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: University of California Press

Women in Rock Memoirs

Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

This book is the definitive short biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, especially his most important Great Society laws and his involvement in the Vietnam War, by a master presidential biographer.

Leopold Von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke endeavoured to understand political order within its own historical context. To understand the nature of historical phenomena, such as an institution or an idea, one had to consider its historical development and the changes it underwent over a period of time.

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