If you read one book about Joan of Arc, it should not be this one. If you read three, though, this should be the third.First read Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" to get the best possible picture of the Maid and her times. Then read "Joan of Arc: Her Story" by Pernoud to appreciate the depth of her...
Royal Rivalries Here “Above all a prince must endeavor”: Machiavelli, The Prince, 95. Here “I was received very graciously” Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, 172. Here “both of them approved”: Ibid., 173. Her...
She also gleaned the fundamentals of rule and government through firsthand observation of the workings of the court. On his ascension to the throne, her father had inherited a vast empire that required a significant degree of political wrangling with the various representative assemblies, known a...