An introduction to the investigation into the mental health of female medieval mystics
While the Medieval ascription to madness is known, in the light of recent psychological and medical insights, I will explore alternative explanations for the extreme behaviour of devout women in the Middle Ages.
France’s Jehanne: The 15th Century Heroine in Truth and Fiction
Jehanne 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
Under 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?
Many 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
A 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
Teaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger By Matthieu Chan Tsin The Once and Future Classroom, Vol.7:1…
The Use of Gunpowder Weaponry by and Against Joan of Arc During the Hundred Years War
This article explores the possibility of a link between Joan of Arc and evolution of gunpowder weaponry during the Hundred Years War, a thesis for which there is some evidence.
Jeanne d’Arc: Morale, Spiritual Authority, and Gunpowder
Few people in history have had more written about them than Jeanne d’Arc. This young woman has been claimed by French Nationalists, the Catholic church, and radical feminists alike; she has been portrayed variously as saint, heretic, schizophrenic, war heroine, virgin, and tart.
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY Hobbins, Daniel THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC, Harvard University…
Teenagers at War During the Middle Ages
What were these two teenagers doing, fighting in a war which seemed to know no chronological bounds, especially if, as was shown above, it might have been unusual for teenagers to have fought in medieval wars?
‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered
What if women did play a more significant part in military history than traditionally has been assumed?
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc
A 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.