Artworks To Visit in Washington, DC
Joan of Arc Series -- paintings by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel,
Housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Other Artworks and Artifacts Housed Across Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Park Service
Bascilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Chapel of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Chapel of St. Margaret of Antioch
Lesson Plans
These lesson plans are designed to be used by high school teachers.
They are freely available for download.
Primary & Secondary Source Materials
Special thanks to Dr. Nora Heimann, Marirose Osborne, and Mikkaela Bailey for suggestions
Joan of Arc: Self Portrait, compiled & translated by Willard Trask. The Telegraph Press, 1936.
Trial of Joan of Arc. translated by Daniel Hobbins. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Taylor, Craig. Joan of Arc: La Pucelle. Manchester Medieval Source Series. Manchester University Press, 2006.
De Pizan, Christine. “Le Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc.” Chronicles and History. Jeanne d’Arc La Pucelle. Originally published by A. J. Kennedy and K. Varty, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1977. Accessed 31 January 2023. https://www.jeanne-darc.info/contemporary-chronicles-other-testimonies/christine-de-pizan-le-ditie-de-jehanne-darc/
Allmand, Christopher. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c. 1300-c. 1450. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Astell, Ann W. and Bonnie Wheeler. Joan of Arc and Spirituality. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Blaetz, Robin. Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture. University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Boutet de Monvel, Louis Maurice. The Story of Joan of Arc. Dover, 2010. Originally published in French as Jeanne d'Arc. E. Plon, Nourrit & Cie, 1896. First English edition published by The Century Company, 1897. (Children’s Book)
Castor, Helen. Joan of Arc: A History, Harper Perennial, 2015.
Cooper-Davis, Charlotte. Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy. Reakion Books, 2022.
Devries, Kelly. Joan of Arc: A Military Leader. Sutton Publishing, 1999.
Dolgin, Ellen Ecker. Modernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and Canonization. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008.
Flower, John, Joan of Arc: Icon of Modern Culture. Helm Information, 2008.
Fraioli, Deborah A. Joan of Arc: The Early Debate. The Boydell Press, 2000.
Fraioli, Deborah A. Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War. Greenwood Press, 2005.
Goy-Blanquet, Dominique. Editor. Joan of Arc, a Saint for All Reasons: Studies in Myth and Politics. Routledge, 2016.
Harrison, Kathryn. Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured. Anchor, 2015.
Heimann, Nora M. Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855). Ashgate: 2005.
Heimann, Nora M. and Laura Coyle. Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America. Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with D. Giles, 2006.
Jewkes, W. T. and Jerome Blanchard Landfield. Joan of Arc; Fact, Legend, and Literature. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964.
Lightbody, Charles Wayland. The Judgements of Joan : Joan of Arc, a Study in Cultural History. Harvard University Press, 1961.
Margolis, Nadia. Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film: a Select, Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1990.
Pernoud, Régine and Marie-Veronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Translated by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams. St Martin's Press, 1998.
Pernoud, Régine. The Retrial of Joan of Arc: the Evidence for Her Vindication. Translated by J.M. Cohen. Ignatius Press, 2007.
Raknem, Ingvald. Joan of Arc in History. Oxford University Press, 1972.
Scott, W.S. The Trial of Joan of Arc. Dover Publications, 2018.
Stolpe, Sven. The Maid of Orleans: The Life & Mysticism of Joan of Arc. Ignatius Press, 2014.
Sullivan, Karen. The Interrogation of Joan of Arc. University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Tavard, George H. The Spiritual Way of St. Jeanne d'Arc. The Liturgical Press, 1998.
Tuchman, Barbara W., A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York, Ballantine, 1979.
Warner, Marina. Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. University of California Press, 2000.
Winock, Michel, “Joan of Arc,” in Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past. Symbols Volume III. Edited by Pierre Nora, Translated by. A. Goldhammer. Columbia University Press,1996.
Wheeler, Bonnie and Ann W. Astell. Joan of Arc and Spirituality. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Wheeler, Bonnie and Charles T. Wood, ed. Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. The New Middle Ages Volume 2. Garland Publishing, 1996.
Wood, Charles T. Joan of Arc & Richard III: Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 1988.
France, Anatole. The Life of Joan of Arc. Volumes 1 and 2. Translated by Winifred Stephens Whale. Project Gutenberg, 2006. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19488
Shaw, G. Bernard. "Saint Joan". Penguin Classics, 2001.
Twain, Mark. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. First edition published by Harper & Brothers, 1896.
Van Dyke, Henry. The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France. Harper and Brothers, 1919.
Arcade Fire. “Arcade Fire - Joan of Arc (Official Audio).” YouTube video, 5:26. 12 July 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpp17DUwqGY
Captivating History. “Joan of Arc Explained in 15 Minutes.” YouTube video, 15:07. 28 July 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fs5FajLzT0
Captivating History. “Why Was the Hundred Years War So Significant?” YouTube video, 12: 11. 11 June 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jf7m6ptP24
Dahm, Murray. “Joan of Arc in Musicals and Opera.” Features. Medievalists.net. Accessed 31 January 2023. https://www.medievalists.net/2020/03/joan-of-arc-musicals-opera/
Extra Credits. “History of England - The 100 Years War - Extra History - #1.” YouTube video, 8:31. 25 May 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0NXWfCLIfI
History Matters. “Ten Minute English and British History #15 - The Hundred Years' War.” YouTube video, 9:59. 6 March 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6CrOGoXtMI
Horrible Histories. “The Joan of Arc SONG 🎶 | Fabulous French | Horrible Histories.” YouTube video, 3:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZGwXRuNsUg
“Joan of Arc.” Collections: European Painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed 31 January 2023. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435621
“Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans.” Podcasts. Medievalists.net. Accessed 31 January 2023. https://www.medievalists.net/2021/10/joan-arc-siege-orleans/
Marasachi, Andrea. “Joan of Arc’s Heretical Tree of Domrémy.” Features. Medievalists.net. Accessed 31 January 2023. https://www.medievalists.net/2022/09/joan-arc-heretical-tree-domremy/
Medievalists. “Christine de Pizan.” YouTube video, 45:49. 3 December 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKrvVv-Q9kY
Midgely, Anne. “Joan of Arc through the Ages: In Art and Imagination.” Articles. Accessed 31 January 2023. https://www.medievalists.net/2017/05/joan-arc-ages-art-imagination/
Navigation Images:
François-Léon Benouville, Jeanne d'Arc écoutant ses voix (Joan of Arc listening to voices), 1859, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
Hermann Anton Stilke, Auftreten von Heiliges Catherine und Michael zu Johanna von Arc, 1843, oil on canvas, 119.5 × 83.5 cm, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Jean Pichore, Joan of Arc on Horseback, 1504 - 1506, Illustration from Les Vies des femmes célèbres de Antoine Du Four, Musée Dobrée, Nantes, France
Peter Paul Rubens, Joan of Arc at Prayer, 1620, oil on canvas, 181.6 x 116.2 cm, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina