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Author Brooks, Polly Schoyer.

Title Beyond the myth : the story of Joan of Arc / Polly Schoyer Brooks.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1990]
©1990

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Bio Brooks Bey 1999    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
age Children
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167).
Summary Places the life of the fifteenth-century girl who has become a French national symbol within the social, religious, and political context of her time.
Contents Fifteenth Century 3 -- 1 Joan and Her Village 14 -- 2 Runaway 30 -- 3 Chinon 38 -- 4 Battle of Orleans 51 -- 5 Battle of Patay 69 -- 6 To Crown the King 79 -- 7 Fall from Glory 87 -- 8 Poor Captive 104 -- 9 Setting the Stage for the Trial 112 -- 10 On Trial 119 -- 11 Relapsed Heretic 135.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Juvenile literature.
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431.
Christian saints -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Christian saints.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject France -- History -- Charles VII, 1422-1461 -- Juvenile literature.
Chronological Term 1422-1461
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
ISBN 0395981387
9780395981382