Category: Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc – The Queen for a brief moment
1. The medieval account If one had to believe a certain medieval document, Joan of Arc become the “Queen of France” for a brief moment: „One day, the Maid asked the king to give her a present. This request was immediately approved. Jeanne asked for nothing less than the Kingdom of France. The King agreed …
Read More Joan of Arc – The Queen for a brief momentSecrets of the life of Jeanne d’Arc. Part 6: The religious factors
The following text is very long and complex. We, ourselves, are not entirely satisfied with it yet and it is likely that it will be undergoing changes throughout our developing studies of Joan of Arc. The material we have gathered and studied was to help us find out in which religious reality Joan was raised …
Read More Secrets of the life of Jeanne d’Arc. Part 6: The religious factorsSecrets of the Life of Jeanne d’Arc. Part 5: Her Personal Affairs
In this part of our discussion about the mysteries of the life of Joan of Arc we will study the issues which are often the reason for repeated pointed controversies, as they often become a grandstand from which strong charges of defamation of her memory are made. So be warned in advance that the reading …
Read More Secrets of the Life of Jeanne d’Arc. Part 5: Her Personal Affairs“Revisionist” triptych of Joan of Arc
What we are presenting here is the altered famous triptych with a scene of Christmas by Gerard David who painted it somewhere between 1505 to 1515. The triptych was amended in such a way as to make it refer to a different birth recorded in a certain chronicle, a birth extremely controversial in history. Presented here …
Read More “Revisionist” triptych of Joan of ArcSecrets of life of Joan of Arc. Part 2: Episode 2: “The Book of Poitiers”
“The Book of Poitiers”! It has long been regarded lost, or even deliberately destroyed – and still holds that status – it was (and continues to be!) one of the three most important manuscripts regarding Joan of Arc – next to the minutes of her condemnation trial in 1431 and the records of her rehabilitation trial in 1456. And …
Read More Secrets of life of Joan of Arc. Part 2: Episode 2: “The Book of Poitiers”The Secrets of Life of Joan of Arc. Part 3: Language, Pronunciation and “illiteracy”
In our first text of Joan of Arc ( “The Passion of Joan of Arc” ) we mentioned among other things, that Joan of Arc spoke a certain dialect. Now we will look at this issue a little closer. In the 1970’s an archivist from Luxembourg, Alain Atten, undertook the reconstruction of the language spoken in Domremy. Atten …
Read More The Secrets of Life of Joan of Arc. Part 3: Language, Pronunciation and “illiteracy”Tajemnice życia Joanny d’Arc. Część 1: Narodziny i dom rodzinny
30 maja – świętej Joanny d’Arc! Według tradycji właśnie tego dnia 581 lat temu (1431) miała ona zginąć na stosie w Rouen. Co prawda od tamtego czasu nieprzerwanie nie brakowało i nie brakuje ludzi podających tę datę w wątpliwość – lub nawet negujących fakt egzekucji Joanny. Jednak ta data i tak wydaje się znacznie pewniejsza …
Read More Tajemnice życia Joanny d’Arc. Część 1: Narodziny i dom rodzinnyClaude, the Second Face of Joan of Arc
May the 30th – the feast of Saint Joan of Arc! On that day (…), between 10 am and 11 am the final judgment was read out to her … With these words we began a few years ago, the article “The Passion of Joan of Arc” . Now we are going to look at what happened after the execution, when …
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