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Ingres’s Joan of Arc Painting (1854)
One of the most common inspirations I’ve seen for Joan of Arc book covers is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s 1854 painting entitled Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale de Reims (Joan of Arc at the coronation of King Charles VII, in the Reims Cathedral). This piece is displayed prominently at the Louvre…
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Ringling Bros. Joan of Arc Spectacle Newspaper Ad (1913)
In 1913, Al Ringling kept Joan of Arc as the theme for the 45-minute spectacle that preceded each Ringling Bros. circus show. That meant that targeted towns saw a lot of Joan of Arc-related advertising like this one in the Taunton Daily Gazette (June 7). Ads like these appeared in newspapers all over America in…
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CFP-Teaching Joan of Arc and Her World in and out of the Classroom
Call for Papers sponsored by The International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2023)May 11 to 13, 2023 Western Michigan University In his translation of Joan of Arc’s 1431 condemnation trial, Daniel Hobbins instructed his readers that the defendant “was not a contradiction to her…
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Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019)
This week, The Year’s Work in Medievalism published my paper “Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019)” examining the latest Doom movie directed by Tony Giglio. It is available for free via open access, but here are some of the highlights. Writer/Director Tony Giglio chose a female lead for Doom: Annihilation, the first in…
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A Flower in a Field of Lions: The Trials of Joan of Arc
In 2018, I had the privilege of writing the afterword for Tapestry Comics’ graphic novel A Flower in a Field of Lions: The Story of Joan of Arc. The editor has allowed me to publish the complete text here. Afterword Regardless of how academic they are, historians still get hyperbolic about Joan of Arc. Depending…
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Joan of Arc Panels at Kalamazoo 2020
The official program for 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies is now live! The International Joan of Arc Society has two panels organized by Tara Beth Smithson and yours truly. We are humbled to have been the stewards for the society’s sessions this year. We have an impressive array of topics and scholars–there are at…
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Book Review: Joan of Arc in the English Imagination
In this book review published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I examine Gail Orgelfinger’s new Joan of Arc book that uncovers four centuries of English opinions on Joan, a messy collage of misogyny, nationalism, guilt, justification, inquisition, and awe surrounding her legacy.
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CFP–Globalizing Joan of Arc: Positioning the Maid in a Transnational Landscape
Call for Papers sponsored by The International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2020)May 7 to 10, 2020Western Michigan University If Joan of Arc’s story has circulated well beyond its hexagonal borders of origin, it remains strangely entangled with euro-nationalism and white supremacy as indicated…
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Joan of Arc on Screen: An Annotated Bibliography
Robin Blaetz said it best: “As one of history’s few noted heroines, Joan of Arc’s cinematic incarnations provide a fascinating record of manipulation according to differing historical and cultural demands.” There are far too many Joan of Arc movies to list here, but the most common ones in these papers and books are Joan the Woman…
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Alien 3’s Ripley as Joan of Arc
Anat Zanger identifies Alien 3’s Ellen Ripley as a cinematic Joan of Arc in disguise. After re-watching the film for umpteenth time, I’m not only convinced, but I would like to highlight and humbly augment Zanger’s analysis, as it might explain why I have loved this film for years while so many have derided it.…
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Book Review: Joan of Arc: La Pucelle
In Joan of Arc: La Pucelle, Craig Taylor tells us that the trial against Joan of Arc “is perhaps the best recorded heresy trial of the middle ages.” This only scratches the surface, as there is so much more in this volume of English translations of documents, transcripts, journal entries, and chronicles related to her…
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Joan of Arc Fired Cannons, not Trebuchets
We know a lot about Joan of Arc including that she besieged cities with cannons, not trebuchets. Yet, when it came time to showcase Joan’s army using siege weapons in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), director Luc Besson went with a siege tower and a trebuchet. It’s easy to let this medievalism…