
The First Biography of Joan of Arc
Translated and Annotated by Daniel Rankin and Claire Quintal
University of Pittsburgh Press
Published on 15. February 1964
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-0-8229-8366-8 (ISBN)
Description
Father Daniel Rankin and Claire Quintal have translated the original French manuscript biography of Joan of Arc, adding as well the first English translation of a brief chronicle of great moments in Joan's career. The original authors of both documents remain anonymous, although the author of the manuscript biography gives a clue to the time it was written. He explains that he compiled the work \u201cBy order of the King, Louis XII of that name.\u201d That places the writing before 1515, the year Louis XII died.
This edition includes not only the fully translated manuscript of the biography and chronicle of Joan of Arc, but expert commentary and explanation by Rankin and Quintal, who have also retained the literary tone of the sixteenth-century text. An appendix offers the first text in English about Joan's close friend, Ambrose de Lor\u00e9.
This edition includes not only the fully translated manuscript of the biography and chronicle of Joan of Arc, but expert commentary and explanation by Rankin and Quintal, who have also retained the literary tone of the sixteenth-century text. An appendix offers the first text in English about Joan's close friend, Ambrose de Lor\u00e9.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-8366-8 (9780822983668)
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Daniel Rankin | Claire Quintal
The First Biography of Joan of Arc
Translated and Annotated by Daniel Rankin and Claire Quintal
E-Book
11/2010
Penguin Random House South Africa
€49.49
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Persons
Father Daniel Rankin was an expert on Joan of Arc and translator of the Trial of Vindication, 1450-1456.