The Retrial Of Joan Of Arc

Author : Regine Pernoud
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681495422

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The Retrial of Joan of Arc by Regine Pernoud Pdf

This book is the first English language book about the retrial of Joan of Arc: and clearly the best, based firmly on the testimonies given at the retrial. Written by the renowned French historian, Regine Pernoud, it uses extensive excerpts from the people who actually knew Joan, bringing to life this great woman and her powerful story. The whole tremendous and fascinating historical story is told here by her childhood playmates and relatives, her royal and noble friends, her confessor, her valet, her squires and heralds, and her fellow soldiers. Included also are excerpts from some of her enemies: their presence here lends even a more powerful authenticity to her story than if we had only heard from her friends and supporters. As we follow Pernoud through her remarkably clear, detailed tracing of this history told by living tongues, weaving the testimonies together, we begin to share with her the experience of those men who were making the investigation of Joan. Pernoud's method is direct and knowledgeable, and dedicated to the discovery and presentation of the mystical truth.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520224647

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Joan of Arc by Marina Warner Pdf

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint.

Author : Timothy Wilson-Smith
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752472263

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Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History by Timothy Wilson-Smith Pdf

Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - the the French court, to battle to wrest France from the Englis in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture. She was put on trial for heresy and, on 30 may 1431, burned at the stake. Even today many people are fascinated by this teenage woman who persuaded her king to believe that she could lead her nation to victory. In the retrial of 1452-6 she was vindicated, but it took almost five hundred years after an English soldier declared 'we have burnt a saint' for the Catholic Church to conclude that she was indeed one. This new book is not merely an account of a life that was cut short; its focus is also on Joan's history, which in 1431 had just begun, and which, the author shows, was influenced just as much by the transformation in Anglo-French relations and by internal politics, issues of freedom and republicanism, and by changes in society regarding secularisation and belief, as by our response to the central issue of Joan's voice themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674038684

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The Trial of Joan of Arc by Anonim Pdf

No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her trial in 1431. Convened at Rouen and directed by bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial culminated in Joan's public execution for heresy. The trial record, which sometimes preserves Joan's very words, unveils her life, character, visions, and motives in fascinating detail. Here is one of our richest sources for the life of a medieval woman. This new translation, the first in fifty years, is based on the full record of the trial proceedings in Latin. Recent scholarship dates this text to the year of the trial itself, thereby lending it a greater claim to authority than had traditionally been assumed. Contemporary documents copied into the trial furnish a guide to political developments in Joan's career—from her capture to the attempts to control public opinion following her execution. Daniel Hobbins sets the trial in its legal and historical context. In exploring Joan's place in fifteenth-century society, he suggests that her claims to divine revelation conformed to a recognizable profile of holy women in her culture, yet Joan broke this mold by embracing a military lifestyle. By combining the roles of visionary and of military leader, Joan astonished contemporaries and still fascinates us today. Obscured by the passing of centuries and distorted by the lens of modern cinema, the story of the historical Joan of Arc comes vividly to life once again.

Author : Helen Castor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571284641

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Joan of Arc by Helen Castor Pdf

Acclaimed historian Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart. Here is a portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint. Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526112798

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Joan of Arc by Anonim Pdf

This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc. Also known as La Pucelle, she led a French Army against the English in 1429, arguably turning the course of the war in favour of the French king Charles VII. The fact that she achieved all of this when just a seventeen-year-old peasant girl highlights the magnitude of her achievements and also opens up other ways of looking at her story. For many, Joan represents the voice of ordinary people in the fifteenth century; the victims of high politics and warfare that devastated France. Her story ended tragically in 1431 when she was put on trial for heresy and sorcery by an ecclesiastical court and was burned at the stake. This book shows how the trial, which was organised by her enemies, provides an important window into late medieval attitudes towards religion and gender, as Joan was effectively persecuted by the established Church for her supposedly non-conformist views on spirituality and the role of women. Presented within a contextual and critical framework, this book encourages scholars and students to rethink this remarkable story. It will be invaluable reading for those working in the fields of medieval society and heresy, as well as the Hundred Years’ War.

Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0816632685

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The Interrogation of Joan of Arc by Karen Sullivan Pdf

The transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial for heresy at Rouen in 1431 and the minutes of her interrogation have long been recognized as our best source of information about the Maid of Orleans. Historians generally view these legal texts as a precise account of Joan's words and, by extension, her beliefs. Focusing on the minutes recorded by clerics, however, Karen Sullivan challenges the accuracy of the transcript. In The Interrogation of Joan of Arc, she re-reads the record not as a perfect reflection of a historical personality's words, but as a literary text resulting from the collaboration between Joan and her interrogators. Sullivan provides an illuminating and innovative account of Joan's trial and interrogation, placing them in historical, social, and religious context. In the fifteenth century, interrogation was a method of truth-gathering identified not with people like Joan, who was uneducated, but with clerics, like those who tried her. When these clerics questioned Joan, they did so as scholastics educated at the University of Paris, as judges and assistants to judges, and as pastors trained in hearing confessions. The Interrogation of Joan of Arc traces Joan's conflicts with her interrogators not to differing political allegiances, but to fundamental differences between clerical and lay cultures. Sullivan demonstrates that the figure depicted in the transcripts as Joan of Arc is a complex, multifaceted persona that results largely from these cultural differences. Discerning and innovative, this study suggests a powerful new interpretive model and redefines our sense of Joan and her time.

Author : Bonnie Wheeler,Charles T. Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135064884

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Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc by Bonnie Wheeler,Charles T. Wood Pdf

This volume of original essays employs the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reval why Joan of Arc was such an important figure.

Author : Régine Pernoud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9780812812602

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Joan of Arc by Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud Pdf

An historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.

Author : Dirk Arend Berents,D. E. H. de Boer,Marina Warner
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9065504125

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Joan of Arc by Dirk Arend Berents,D. E. H. de Boer,Marina Warner Pdf

Author : Charles Wayland Lightbody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Christian women saints
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001624886

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The Judgements of Joan by Charles Wayland Lightbody Pdf

Author : Larissa Juliet Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300161298

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The Virgin Warrior by Larissa Juliet Taylor Pdf

“A fresh and provocative biography of La Pucelle . . . her transformation from a naive girl to a strong-willed, bold, and gifted captain of war.”—Frederic J. Baumgartner, author of France in the Sixteenth Century France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life has been so endlessly cast and recast that we have lost sight of the remarkable girl at the heart of it—a teenaged peasant girl who, after claiming to hear voices, convinced the French king to let her lead a disheartened army into battle. In the process she changed the course of European history. In The Virgin Warrior, Larissa Juliet Taylor paints a vivid portrait of Joan as a self-confident, charismatic and supremely determined figure, whose sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders. The drama of Joan’s life is set against a world where visions and witchcraft were real, where saints could appear to peasants, battles and sieges decided the fate of kingdoms and rigged trials could result in burning at the stake. Yet in her short life, Joan emboldened the French soldiers and villagers with her strength and resolve. A difficult, inflexible leader, she defied her accusers and enemies to the end. From her early years to the myths and fantasies that have swelled since her death, Taylor “goes deep into Joan of Arc’s heart and soul and shows us the maiden, the warrior and the heroine” (Kate Williams, New York Times bestselling author)./

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520224643

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Joan of Arc by Marina Warner Pdf

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint.

Author : Clarissa W. Atkinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501740893

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The Oldest Vocation by Clarissa W. Atkinson Pdf

According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during a papal procession through the streets of Rome. From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe. After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, Clarissa W. Atkinson reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction; inherited from Greek science and popularized through the practice of midwifery, these assumptions helped shape common beliefs about what mothers were. She then describes the development of "spiritual motherhood" both as a concept emerging out of monastic ideologies in the early Middle Ages and as a reality in the lives of certain remarkable women. Atkinson explores the theological dimensions of medieval motherhood by discussing the cult of the Virgin Mary in twelfth-century art, story, and religious expression. She also offers a fascinating new perspective on the women saints of the later Middle Ages, many of whom were mothers; their lives and cults forged new relationships between maternity and holiness. The Oldest Vocation concludes where most histories of motherhood begin—in early modern Europe, when the family was institutionalized as a center of religious and social organization. Anyone interested in the status of motherhood, or in women's history, the cultural history of the Middle Ages, or the history of religion will want to read this book.

Author : Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
Publisher : London, J. C. Nimmo
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072015647

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Joan of Arc by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower Pdf