Joan of Arc and Spirituality

This collection explores multiple facets of Joan of Arc'sprayerful life. Two-thirds of the essays focus on Joan in her own time; the later chapters study Joan's formative influence upon modern women.Taken together, these essays offer new perspectives on the heroism of Joan's original way of sanctity.

Ann W. Astell is Professor of English at Purdue University.

Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.

Joan's Own Spirituality * The Mortal Body as Divine Proof: A Spiritual-Physical Blazon of Joan of Arc--Nadia Margolis * The Virgin Mary and the 'Voices' of Joan of Arc--Ann W. Astell * St. Joan and Confession: Internal and External Forum--Henry Ansgar Kelly * Joan of Arc and Lex Privata: a Spirit of Freedom in the Law--Jane Marie Pinzino * Joan of Arc's Call to Crusade--Kelly DeVries * Clerical Perceptions of Joan's Spirituality in her Own Time * Jeanne and the Clergy--George H. Tavard * Judging Women of Spirit: From Female Mystics to Joan of Arc--Deborah Fraioli Gerson * A Reconsideration of Jean Gerson's Attitude toward Joan of Arc in Light of his Views on Popular Devotion--Yelena Mazour-Matusevich * Jean Gerson, The Shunammite, and the Maid--Brian Patrick McGuire * Joan's Secular Contemporaries * Christine de Pizan's Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc: History, Feminism, and God's Grace--Heather M. Arden * En l'honneur de la Pucelle: Ritualizing Joan the Maid in Fifteenth Century Orléans--Vicki L. Hamblin * Joan as Model * The Princess and the Maid of Orléans: Sculpting Spirituality During the July Monarchy--Nora M. Heimann * Le Triomphe de l'humilite: Thérèse of Lisieux and 'la nouvelle Jeanne'--Denise L. Despres * Force of Fragility? Simone Weil and Two Faces of Joan of Arc--Ann Piruccello * She Gets Inside Your Head: Joan of Arc and Contemporary Women's Spirituality--Anne Llewellyn Barstow
Joan's Own Spirituality * The Mortal Body as Divine Proof: A Spiritual-Physical Blazon of Joan of Arc--Nadia Margolis * The Virgin Mary and the 'Voices' of Joan of Arc--Ann W. Astell * St. Joan and Confession: Internal and External Forum--Henry Ansgar Kelly * Joan of Arc and Lex Privata: a Spirit of Freedom in the Law--Jane Marie Pinzino * Joan of Arc's Call to Crusade--Kelly DeVries * Clerical Perceptions of Joan's Spirituality in her Own Time * Jeanne and the Clergy--George H. Tavard * Judging Women of Spirit: From Female Mystics to Joan of Arc--Deborah Fraioli * A Reconsideration of Jean Gerson's Attitude toward Joan of Arc in Light of his Views on Popular Devotion--Yelena Mazour-Matusevich * Jean Gerson, The Shunammite, and the Maid--Brian Patrick McGuire * Joan's Secular Contemporaries * Christine de Pizan's Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc: History, Feminism, and God's Grace--Heather M. Arden * En l'honneur de la Pucelle: Ritualizing Joan the Maid in Fifteenth Century Orléans--Vicki L. Hamblin * Joan as Model * The Princess and the Maid of Orléans: Sculpting Spirituality During the July Monarchy--Nora M. Heimann * Le Triomphe de l'humilite: Thérèse of Lisieux and 'la nouvelle Jeanne'--Denise L. Despres * Force of Fragility? Simone Weil and Two Faces of Joan of Arc--Ann Piruccello * She Gets Inside Your Head: Joan of Arc and Contemporary Women's Spirituality--Anne Llewellyn Barstow