John Potvin and Alla Myzelev
Ashgate
Hardback
250

In her well illustrated, meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora Heimann offers the first art historical and cultural analysis of the origins of the modern Joan of Arc cult, taking on the challenge of charting why and how the Maid of Orl?ans has been all things to a diverse public through the ages, particularly during the rapid shifts in political regimes that followed in the wake of the French Revolution.