Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Provost Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, where she was the director of the Center for Religion and the Human. Her books include The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005) and Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law (2020).

By drawing our attention to this uniquely fluid historical moment, [Sullivan] compels a closer look at the nature of power, how authority can be assembled outside the structures of the state, and how religious belief, acted upon, can make a king. In Sullivan’s perception, Joan’s single desire to coronate Charles’ at Reims contains the larger problem of how authority is created and undone. The book follows the emergence of this new politics and its newly skilled politician.

• IntroductionNote on Sources and TranslationsMaps by Claire Bergen1. Making a King2. La Pucelle3. Mapping Joan4. After Reims5. “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Reflection by Mapmaker Claire BergenChronology of Joan’s LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Provost Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, where she was the director of the Center for Religion and the Human. Her books include The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005) and Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law (2020).

By drawing our attention to this uniquely fluid historical moment, [Sullivan] compels a closer look at the nature of power, how authority can be assembled outside the structures of the state, and how religious belief, acted upon, can make a king. In Sullivan’s perception, Joan’s single desire to coronate Charles’ at Reims contains the larger problem of how authority is created and undone. The book follows the emergence of this new politics and its newly skilled politician.

• IntroductionNote on Sources and TranslationsMaps by Claire Bergen1. Making a King2. La Pucelle3. Mapping Joan4. After Reims5. “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Reflection by Mapmaker Claire BergenChronology of Joan’s LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Provost Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, where she was the director of the Center for Religion and the Human. Her books include The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005) and Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law (2020).

By drawing our attention to this uniquely fluid historical moment, [Sullivan] compels a closer look at the nature of power, how authority can be assembled outside the structures of the state, and how religious belief, acted upon, can make a king. In Sullivan’s perception, Joan’s single desire to coronate Charles’ at Reims contains the larger problem of how authority is created and undone. The book follows the emergence of this new politics and its newly skilled politician.

• IntroductionNote on Sources and TranslationsMaps by Claire Bergen1. Making a King2. La Pucelle3. Mapping Joan4. After Reims5. “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Reflection by Mapmaker Claire BergenChronology of Joan’s LifeNotesBibliographyIndex