Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 5237
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  • Title: Why Joan of Arc Never Became an Amazon
  • Source: Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc.  Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Charles T. Wood.  Garland Publishing, 1996.  Pages 189 - 204.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Amazons Catalogs Joan of Arc, Saint Nine Worthy Women (Literary Motif)
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Abstract: An argument against the widely-held belief that the popularity of the Amazons in late medieval France was a positive influence on the decision of Charles VII's theologians to endorse Joan's mission. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing.]
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815323379