Joan of Arc and Spirituality

ANN W. ASTELL earned her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. Professor of English at Purdue University, she is the author of numerous books and articles on medieval literature and spirituality. - BONNIE WHEELER directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She writes and teaches about medieval literatures and culture, and she is the editor of the journal Arthuriana. She is series editor of The New Middle Ages Series, in which this volume appears, and for which she recently edited Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (2000) and co-edited Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (New York: Palgrave, 2003).

• JOAN'S OWN SPIRITUALITY The Mortal Body as Divine Proof: A Spiritual-Physical Blazon of Joan of Arc; N.Margolis The Virgin Mary and the 'Voices' of Joan of Arc; A.W.Astell St. Joan and Confession: Internal and External Forum; H.Ansgar Kelly Joan of Arc and Lex Privata: a Spirit of Freedom in the Law; J.M.Pinzino Joan of Arc's Call to Crusade; K.DeVries CLERICAL PERCEPTIONS OF JOAN'S SPIRITUALITY IN HER OWN TIME Jeanne and the Clergy; G.H.Tavard Judging Women of Spirit: From Female Mystics to Joan of Arc; D.Fraioli Gerson A Reconsideration of Jean Gerson's Attitude toward Joan of Arc in Light of his Views on Popular Devotion; Y.Mazour-Matusevich Jean Gerson, The Shunammite, and the Maid; B.P.McGuire JOAN'S SECULAR CONTEMPORARIES Christine de Pizan's Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc: History, Feminism, and God's Grace; H.M.Arden En l'honneur de la Pucelle: Ritualizing Joan the Maid in Fifteenth Century Orléans; V.L.Hamblin JOAN AS MODEL The Princess and the Maid of Orléans: Sculpting Spirituality During the July Monarchy; N.M.Heimann Le Triomphe de l'humilite: Thérèse of Lisieux and 'la nouvelle Jeanne'; D.L.Despres Force of Fragility? Simone Weil and Two Faces of Joan of Arc; A.Piruccello She Gets Inside Your Head: Joan of Arc and Contemporary Women's Spirituality; A.Llewellyn Barstow