Making a king the political theology of Joan of Arc Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers 1950- creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut text bibliography nyu 2026 monographic eng print regular print xxvi, 276 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 22 cm "Joan of Arc has been depicted in many ways by numerous authors but almost always as a victim or martyr. In contrast, Making a King views her as a figure of power, a commanding presence in French politics engaged in a series of complex strategies deploying a range of political theologies. She sought to legitimate a king, channel God's word, convene a coronation, and evoke the law of states while at the same time speaking for the power of the people as an alternative legal order. Did she in fact also speak as a king herself, as she was accused? Opinions differ, but her intervention was constitutional in the broadest sense, collective and collaborative . In 1429 Joan responded to a call to interrupt the aristocratic politics of the Hundred Years War with England in service to Charles VII, one of the claimants to the French throne, and to mobilize human and material resources. After her capture and sale to the English, trial for heresy, execution in 1430, and sanctification in 1920, she has been popularly framed as both the anticlerical champion of the people and as the royalist saint. Winni Sullivan takes a different perspective, examining how religion and politics intersected in her life and actions. She assembled the practices of sacred kingship, mystical experience, and political and economic chaos to mobilize a vernacular political theology, an assemblage, called to realize peace. A thought experiment in dialogue with the historical record and its interpreters as well as those investigating religion and politics relations today, Making a King helps us understand Joan's extraordinary political intelligence, her life at the hinge point of modernity, and the consequences of not taking religion, unstable a concept as it is, into account in our political and social world today"-- Provided by publisher. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-fr--- of Arc, Saint Joan 1412-1431 Knowledge and learning of Arc, Saint Joan 1412-1431 Political theology France Politics and government 1328-1589 France History 15th century France Politique et gouvernement 1328-1589 France Histoire 15e siècle Théologie politique Political theology History France 1328-1589 fast 1400-1499 fast DC104 .S87 2026 944.026092 9780231222815 0231222815 9780231222822 0231222823 9780231564397 2026015766 POD DLC 260727 20260808204559.0 in00005790406 eng