This first life of Joan of Arc was intended originally as an introduction or explanation to prepare the reader for Joan's trial of condemnation and a summarized account of her trial of vindication.

Joan was very tired: she had her wound dressed by a surgeon, and, for supper, she had four or five little pieces of toast, dipped in weak wine and water: that was all she ate, Dunois says, all that long day.

Joan had been an international celebrity for almost two years by the time the trial began. Realizing the scrutiny that such a case would at- tract, her judges produced the most detailed trial record of the …

Joan was endowed with remarkable mental and physical courage, as well as a robust common sense, and she possessed many attributes characteristic of the female visionaries who were a noted feature …

Joan of Arc wasn't the only woman uninterested in the traditional role of housewife, and she was one of the first to do something to change that. As the text says, Joan of Arc inspired many feminists, who …

NSPIRATIONAL WOMAN – JOAN OF ARC Born in 1412, Jeanne d’Arc (or in English, Joan of Arc), a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in.

France, embroiled in a war with England in a struggle over the French throne during the Hundred Years’ War, would find a savior who in turn was a heretic to the English. This sinner and saint was a woman …