I don’t know who needs to hear this, but gender variance has existed throughout human history. Many Catholic monks and saints were gender-fluid, with some only discovered as such after death. Union ...
Join Tom and Dominic as they launch into the life of one of the most extraordinary people in all medieval history: Joan of Arc, and trace her journey from humble peasant girl, to advisor to the King ...
While secular art projects around the saint are flourishing in the U.S., it is worth remembering that nothing in her work can be explained without God. St. Joan of Arc is depicted on horseback in an ...
Joan of Arc’s story has everything humans can’t resist: a teenager with absolute conviction, a country in crisis, and adults in power making decisions that range from strategic to deeply embarrassing.
Scholars still debate the details of the life of Joan of Arc, the teen-aged mystic who rose out of a farmyard to lead France to military victories in the 15th century. But her story has reached a ...
Even before the production debuted, it had inflamed a rancorous debate about sex and gender that plays out almost daily in Britain. By Alex Marshall LONDON — When the playwright Charlie Josephine ...
You may have a passing knowledge of Joan of Arc through pop culture references — Bill and Ted's epic history report, anyone? The Smiths lyrics? — or a dimly remembered World History class or two. But ...
Shakespeare’s Globe theater is reinventing the story of St. Joan of Arc in an upcoming production called I, Joan, in which the French-Catholic heroine will be portrayed as a non-binary “queer” ...
BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) presents “I, Joan,” by Charlie Josephine – a powerful imagining of the story of ...
A debate is raging online after a British theater venue announced an upcoming play about Joan of Arc would feature a non-binary person in the lead role. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London announced ...
I was dismayed to see Maureen Corrigan’s positive review of “Joan” by Katherine Chen (Books, Aug. 6). Ms. Chen’s portrayal of St. Joan of Arc as an angry Amazon is a distortion of the historical ...
Albert Lynch on WikimediaEvery once in a while, history surprises us with someone who changes everything. Not a king or conqueror, but an ordinary person who steps into the chaos of their time and ...