Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3979
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): DeVries , Kelly.
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  • Title: A Woman as Leader of Men: Joan of Arc's Military Career
  • Source: Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc.  Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Charles T. Wood.  Garland Publishing, 1996.  Pages 3 - 18.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Joan of Arc, Saint Military Leadership Warfare and Warriors
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Abstract: Joan did not offer her soldiers terrestrial possessions; she offered them religious possibilties, even salvation. Though she was radically different from other contemporary military leaders, her troops followed her with a loyalty unsurpassed by any other late-medieval captain. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing.]
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  • Author's Affiliation: Loyola College
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815323379