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Joan of Arc is an almost mythic medieval figure, her image still instantly recognisable after half a millennium. Her tale is both familiar yet endlessly startling.

The peasant girl sent by God to save France, dressed in armour as though she were a man, the maid who rescued Orléans and led her king to be crowned at Reims, the martyr who became a legend – and later a saint – when she was burned at the stake by the English enemy in 1431.

In a compelling illustrated talk bestselling Femina author Janina Ramirez untangles fact from fiction to bring Joan of Arc and medieval France vividly to life.