Representing Joan of Arc

Abstract

I oan exists. She changes in form but not in substance from one century to another to suit the needs of her readers, appearing I as witch in one and saint in another. The story is so familiar— Ifyoung maid who heard voices and went on to lead soldiers into war and victory, and then to support the coronation of the Dauphin at Rheims; then betrayed, to die by fire. The story, sketched like that sounds simple, and there has never been any doubt from the perspectives of nationalism and patriotism that Joan was a Saint. Why did it take so long then, for this fact to be realised? It lay in the ambiguity of her being: a woman, dressed like a man, serving to unite through warriorhood a France that was severed. She heard voices—what manner of

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