Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc
New Middle Ages Series

Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to be found a saint. This volume of original essays seeks to shed light on these mysteries, but also to explain why, even in the 20th century, Joan of Arc remains such a potent symbol. Scholars here employ the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reveal why verterans of her military campaigns found her to have been a remarkable commander; why so many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries, churchman and poets alike, found it possible to accept the validity of her mission and her voices; why modern politicians and literary and cinematic artists have used her as the symbolic vehicle for their own visions; and why the Catholic Church finally decided to canonize her in 1920. The essays are heavily cross-referenced, and are capped off with a reflective epilogue by R gine Pernoud, long the dean of Joan scholars and former director of the Centre Jeanne d'Arc at Orleans. Also includes maps.

Preface, Charles T. Wood; Joan of Arc's Sword in the Stone, Bonnie Wheeler; A Woman as Leader of Men: Joan of Arc's Military Career, Kelly DeVries; Joan of Arc's Mission and the Lost Record of Her Interrogation at Poitiers, Charles T. Wood ; True Lies: Transvetism and Idolatry in the Trial of Joan of Arc, Susan Schibanoff; Was Joan of Arc a sign of Charles VII's Innocence?, Jean Fraikin; Transcription Errors in Texts of Joan of Arc's History, Olivier, Bouzy; I Do not Name to You the voice of St. Michael: The Identification of Joan of Arc's Voices, Karen Sullivan; Readers of the Lost Arc: Secrecy, Specularity, and Speculation in the Trial of Joan of Arc, Steven Weiskopf; Joan of Arc and Chrstine de Pizan: The Symbiosis of Two Warriors in the Diti de Jehanne d'Arc, Christine McWebb; PR Pas PC: Christine de Pizan's Pro-Joan Propaganda, Anne D. Lutkus and Julia M. Walker; Speaking of Angels: A Fifteenth-Century Bishop in Defense of Joan of Arc's Mystical Voices, Jane Marie Pinzino; Martin Le Franc's Commentary on Jean Gerson's Treatise on Joan of Arc, Gertrude H. Merkle; Why Joan of Arc Never Became an Amazon, Deborah Fraioli; Joan of Arc's Last Trial: the Attack of the Devil's Advocates, Henry Ansgar Kelly; Jeanne Au Cin ma, Kevin J. Harty; The Joan Phenonmenon and the French Right, Nadia Margolis; Epilogue: Joan of Arc or the Survival of a People, R gine Pernoud; Appendices: Joan of Arc and Her Doctors, Marie-Veronique Clin; Aspects of Material Culture in the Paris Region at the Time of Joan of Arc, Nicole Meyer Rodrigues; Contributors

Bonnie Wheeler, Charles T. Wood