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Title
The Trial of Joan of Arc.
ISBN
9780674038684
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (267 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674038684 doi
Call Number
KJV130.J625 P7613 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
262.9/2
Summary
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.
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Hobbins, Daniel.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Map, 1429
Note on the Translation
The Trial of Joan of Arc
Introduction
1. Preparatory Trial
2. Ordinary Trial
3. Trial for Relapse
4. Aftermath
Appendix: The "Poitiers Conclusions"
Chronology
Major Participants in the Trial
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Map, 1429
Note on the Translation
The Trial of Joan of Arc
Introduction
1. Preparatory Trial
2. Ordinary Trial
3. Trial for Relapse
4. Aftermath
Appendix: The "Poitiers Conclusions"
Chronology
Major Participants in the Trial
Notes
Further Reading
Index