Joan and Jill
V.G. Kiernan, 15 October 1981
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
by Marina Warner.
Weidenfeld, 349 pp., £9.95, August 1981,9780297776383 Show More
by Marina Warner.
Weidenfeld, 349 pp., £9.95, August 1981,
“... the saints who visited her, when, for instance, she was pressed at her trial to specify whether St Michael wore wings or not. What Miss Warner emphasises, however, is that her experience was not of mystical rapture, but had a mundane, realistic bearing: she was being instructed to leave Domrémy and undertake a mission for her bleeding country, and this ... ”