Deborah A. Fraioli, Joan of Arc: The Early Debate.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

(Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000). x + 235 pp. ISBN 0-85115-572-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling].

This book is unique by its concentration on the lively debate which went on chiefly in 1429 around the theological principles of the doctrine of the discernment of spirits and their application to Joan. Deborah A. Fraioli treats all relevant texts in, as nearly as possible, chronological order, and presents them with detailed, shrewd, stimulating,...

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