FROM DEMONIZATION TO VENERATION: JOAN OF ARC IN ENGLAND IN THE 15th–19th CENTURIES (ORGELFINGER G. JOAN OF ARC IN THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION, 1429–1829. University Park: the Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. 230 p.)

The article undertakes a detailed analysis of the first monographic study devoted to the problem of describing the history of Joan of Arc in the English sources of the 15th–19th centuries. The book of Gail Orgelfinger, to a certain extent, filled a crucial gap in the études johanniques that existed for several centuries. It analyzed texts of various genres: official correspondence, chronicles, historical writings, fiction and poetry. On this material, the author tries to demonstrate how the attitude towards Joan of Arc of her yesterday’s enemies has changed, what epithets they awarded her, what figures of silence and fiction they used describing the events of the Hundred Years’ War, how they argued their position. Despite the significant shortcomings noted in the review, the appearance of this monograph can be welcomed: it will serve as a basis (both in source studies and in historiographical terms) for subsequent studies of the proposed issues.

Middle Ages, Modern Times, the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc, England, France, historiography, historical memory, source studies, literary studies