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Joan of Arc is a name that\u2019s instantly recognisable to most. A controversial figure in her own day, she has remained so ever since, often being adopted as a talisman of French nationalism.

But how much do we really know\u2014or understand\u2014about the young woman who ignited France\u2019s fightback against England during the Hundred Years\u2019 War, but who paid the ultimate price at the age of just 19? To get to the heart of the real \u2018Maid of Orl\xe9ans\u2019, Matt Lewis from the Gone Medieval podcast is joined in this episode by Dr Hannah Skoda, a Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at the University of Oxford.

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