632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1)

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Tom Holland mentioned reading this book at a very impressionable age, noting it came out in the early 80s. He quoted Warner's introduction describing Joan as not being a queen, courtesan, beauty, mother, or artist, and also cited Warner's analysis of Joan's attraction to clear-cut situations with identifiable centres of authority.

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Tom Holland discussed how this great Dutch historian, published in 1919, pointedly omitted Joan of Arc from his study of 15th century Burgundy and Northern France, not because she was unimportant but because 'she would have torn the book I visualized in my mind completely out of balance.'