Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700,1855)

In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc''s posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire in the eighteenth century to her ultimate emergence as an image of piety and sanctity in the mid-nine...