Letter to Dr Joan FitzHerbert

With the publication of Mr. Shane Leslie’s Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert, which appears a little over a century after her death, the clouds which so long hung over the name and fame of ...

In the recent century, researchers have become increasingly focused on the famous English writer George Bernard Shaw’s historical play Saint Joan. It is generally accepted that Sai...

This article is a personal tribute to working with Joan Acker. I worked with Joan in 2012, helping to edit her own thoughts and reflection on how other academics evaluate and used ...

My paper attempts to peruse Joan's religious fanaticism, reaching us through the perspective of 600 years and then filtered through Shaw's imagination, becoming the protest of a pl...

Joan of Arc was born to a peasant family in a village called Domrémy in northeastern France in 1412. She was raised in a religious household and, at the age of twelve, claimed to h...

Maria Fitzherbert (1756–1837) was already twice widowed when the young Prince of Wales began his pursuit of her in 1784. Initially refusing his offer of marriage, she eventually ac...

George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan quickly became a play without a passport. Shaw began writing the play in England in late April 1923 and completed it in Ireland in August of that s...

AbstractThis note examines a Sanskrit letter from Bengal dating to approximately 1535 ce. The letter was assumed to be lost. Addressed to a scholar in the discipline of nyāyaśāstra...