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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 ...
Death by burning at stake. 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.
260 pp. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Sieur Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes. He has the same initials as Samuel ...
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.
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.
The Trial of Joan of Arc. The Trial of Joan of Arc (French: Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1962 French historical drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson. Florence Delay stars as Joan of Arc, a French military leader, who is undergoing a trial on the charge of heresy in 1431, during the Hundred Years' War.
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.
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc), a celebrated French historical figure who was executed by the English for alleged heresy in 1431, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Joan was accompanied by an army during the Hundred Years War, then adopting the garb of a soldier, which ultimately provided a pretense for her ...