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Gender Transgression as Heresy: The Trial of Joan of Arc
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper aims to take the trial of Joan of Arc seriously by arguing that Joan really was a heretic because she was different from orthodox Christians in that she transgressed traditional gender roles. -
Myths and mandrakes
Posted on March 4, 2013 | No CommentsOthers, however, began to wonder whether the possession of roots might not bring them success in other areas as well—wealth, popularity, or the power to control their own and other people's destinies, and took to wearing them as good luck charms. -
Did Joan of Arc have to be a woman? Contemporary and later perspectives on her gender
Posted on January 29, 2013 | No CommentsThe only trustworthy drawing of Joan of Arc made during her lifetime has often been reproduced. Yet, to those of us who study the fifteenth-century French military saint, this portrait is actually a disappointment. -
Is truth more interesting than fiction? The conflict between veracity and dramatic impact in historical fiction
Posted on January 15, 2013 | No CommentsI do not wish to enlist, on either side, in the battle between historians and novelists. What I would like is to suggest a foray which may at first glance seem a minor skirmish, but which may significantly affect the way in which a writer portrays people who once lived, particularly famous people. -
Joan of Arc: Christian Heretic, Christian Saint
Posted on December 30, 2012 | No CommentsJoan of Arc was the French hero of the Hundred Years War and the catalyst who tipped the war in favor of the French after a series of disheartening English victories. -
Hugh Kennedy of Ardstinchar: Joan of Arc’s Scottish Captain
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No CommentsPriest, soldier, pillager, diplomat, counsellor to kings, Archdeacon of St Andrews… and mentioned in the birth of Scottish golf. You couldn't make this man up. -
Reflections on The Malleus Maleficarum in Light of the Trial of Joan of Arc
Posted on June 27, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Joan’s trial took place in France and The Malleus Maleficarum was published in Germany, they are suitable for comparison because this text became the definitive manual for witchcraft inquisitors across Europe. -
France’s Jehanne: The 15th Century Heroine in Truth and Fiction
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsJehanne bends her legs and arms, holding them close to her chest like a small child, trying hopelessly to find warmth on the cold, damp floor of her prison cell. Sitting only feet away from her body, outside the bars of her tiny cage, two guards argue over whose task it is to watch over her throughout the night. Their loud shouts echo against the tower’s stone walls and follow the stairs to the wet, deserted ground. She extends her arms around her head in an effort to drown out their foul noise from her head and hopefully alleviate her nose from the rank odor of putrefied air. -
The ‘relics of Joan of Arc’: A forensic multidisciplinary analysis
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsUnder the authority of the Association des Amis du Vieux Chinon and the Archbishop of Tours (curator of the remains), a scientific analysis was recently performed on the so-called ‘relics of Joan of Arc’, which reside in Chinon (in central France). -
Joan of Arc, creative psychopath: is there another explanation?
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsMany of these facts can be explained by the hypothesis that Joan of Arc suffered from tuberculosis with a temporal lobe tuberculoma and tuberculous pericarditis. -
Primary Sources and Context Concerning Joan of Arc’s Male Clothing
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsA number of the clergy who had served on the tribunal later testified, during the posthumous investigations and appeal of the case (1450, 1452, and 1455-56) after the English were expelled, that the transcript and judges had misrepresented the circumstances and hence the theological implications. -
Teaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsTeaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger By Matthieu Chan Tsin The Once and Future Classroom, Vol.7:1 (2009) Introduction: When Luc Besson and Sony... -
The Use of Gunpowder Weaponry by and Against Joan of Arc During the Hundred Years War
Posted on June 19, 2011 | No CommentsThe Use of Gunpowder Weaponry by and Against Joan of Arc During the Hundred Years War By Kelly DeVries War and Society, Vol.14:1 (1996) Introduction: This article explores the possibility... -
Jeanne d’Arc: Morale, Spiritual Authority, and Gunpowder
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsJeanne d’Arc: Morale, Spiritual Authority, and Gunpowder Roberts, Emilie Honour’s Thesis, 2010 Abstract Few people in history have had more written about them than Jeanne d’Arc. This young woman has been... -
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY
Posted on April 11, 2011 | No CommentsWHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY Hobbins, Daniel THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC, Harvard University Press (2005) Abstract Joan of Arc was... -
‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsWhat if women did play a more significant part in military history than traditionally has been assumed? -
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc
Posted on February 14, 2009 | No CommentsA great many of the tragedies of the past must have been caused by mental disease which was undetected and misunderstood. Such a case may well have been that of Joan of Arc.