Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc: France and England had an unstable history with one another and in 1337, King Edward III of England decided to lay claim to the French throne based on a relation on his mother’s side (Walker 219). This led to the Hundred Years’ War, which would consume the people’s lives from 1337 to 1453 (Walker 220). During this time there was a great plague sweeping Europe, the “Black Death” which was the cause of millions of …

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