Trial of Joan of Arc

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0674024052 ISBN13: 9780674024052 Release Date: April 2007 Publisher: Harvard University Press Length: 272 Pages Weight: 0.85 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9" No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her trial in 1431. Convened at Rouen and directed by bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial culminated in Joan's public execution for heresy. The trial record, which sometimes preserves Joan's very words, unveils her life, character, visions, and motives in fascinating detail. Here is one of our richest sources for the life of a medieval woman. This new translation, the first in fifty years, is based on the full record of the trial proceedings in Latin. Recent scholarship dates this text to the year of the trial itself, thereby lending it a greater claim to authority than had traditionally been assumed. Contemporary documents copied into the trial furnish a guide to political