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Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be ...
Charles Lamb chided Samuel Taylor Coleridge for reducing Joan to "a pot girl" in the first drafts of The Destiny of Nations, initially part of Robert Southey's Joan of Arc. She was the subject of essays by Lord Mahon for The Quarterly Review, [15] and by Thomas De Quincey for Tait's. [16] In 1890, the Joan of Arc Church was dedicated to her.
Inspired by the Trinity, Pope Calixtus III authorizes the Rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (Manuscrit de Diane de Poitiers, XVIth century). 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 ...
More than 600 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but cultural fascination. ... Joan was a saint, a witch, a martyr, a ...
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.
Joan of Arc, Sick, Interrogated in Prison by the Cardinal of Winchester is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, created in 1824.The painting depicts Joan of Arc as she is being interrogated by Cardinal Henry Beaufort, of Winchester, despite the fact that the event never happened.
With his new Fox Nation docudrama Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, Scorsese highlights eight of these historical figures, including Mary Magdalene, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi and ...
Madonna and Child with St Peter Martyr, by Lorenzo Lotto Joan of Arc being burned at the stake, by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu. Tewdrig, 6th c. [61]; Boethius, 6th c. [62]; Sigismund of Burgundy, 524 [63]