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The Trial of Joan of Arc was a 15th century legal proceeding against Joan of Arc, a French military leader under Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War. During the siege of Compiègne in 1430, she was captured by Burgundian forces and subsequently sold to their English allies.
The conviction of Joan of Arc in 1431 was posthumously investigated on appeal in the 1450s by Inquisitor-General Jean Bréhal at the request of Joan's surviving family—her mother Isabelle Romée and two of her brothers, Jean and Pierre. The appeal was authorized by Pope Callixtus III. The purpose of the retrial was to investigate whether the ...
Many lines during scenes of Joan's trial were taken verbatim from Joan's real trial transcript. [4] Joan is shown receiving both of the wounds she was given in real life (an arrow above the breast, and an arrow to the leg), and the film includes some of the 15th-century accounts associated with Joan, such as being able to pick out Charles VII ...
Hobbins' best-known work is The Trial of Joan of Arc, which includes the first new translation of the transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial for fifty years. He gave guest lectures on Joan of Arc at Bowling Green State University and Ohio Northern University in October 2007. He has also written in The American Historical Review on Jean Gerson.
0-8153-3664-0. Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc (edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Charles Wood) is an anthology of scholarly essays on Joan of Arc. First published by Garland publishing in 1996 ( ISBN 0-8153-3664-0 ), it is 336 pages long. Bonnie Wheeler is the Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.
The film summarizes the time that Joan of Arc was a captive of England, [2] depicting her trial and execution. Danish director Dreyer was invited to make a film in France by the Société Générale des Films and chose to make a film about Joan of Arc due to her renewed popularity in France.
French. Pierre Cauchon (1371 – 18 December 1442) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Beauvais from 1420 to 1432. He was a strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War. He was the judge in the trial of Joan of Arc and played a key role in her execution.
France. Joan of Arc (1412–1431) was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV in his bull Divina disponente, [4] which concluded the canonization process that the Sacred Congregation of Rites instigated after a petition of 1869 of the French Catholic hierarchy.