The Interrogation of Joan of Arc

232 Pages·1999·12.04 MB·English

by  Karen Sullivan

The interrogation of Joan of Arc
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The Interrogation of Joan of Arc
Karen Sullivan
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An earlier version of chapter 2 appears as " 'I Do Not Name to You the Voice of
Saint Michael': The Identification of Joan of Arc's Voices" in Bonnie Wheeler
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The interrogation of Joan of Arc / Karen Sullivan.
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1. Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431—Trials, litigation, etc.
2. Questioning—France — History—Sources. 3. Christian women
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Contents
Acknowledgments | ix
Introduction | xi
1. The Foiry Tree | 1
2. | The Voices from God | 21
3. | The Departure for France 42
4. The Sign for the King | 61
5. | The Inquiry at Rouen | 82
6. | The Confession of Conscience | 106
7. | The Prison Cell | 129
Notes | 149
Selected Bibliography | 179
Index 199
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Acknowledgments
This book has benefited from the preliminary responses of many readers.
I am grateful, first and foremost, to R. Howard Bloch, who has assisted this
project from its inception and whose own work on the progression from
inquest to Inquisition provided so much of the original inspiration for it.
Deirdre d'Albertis and Mark Lambert read and commented on the entire
manuscript, challenging me to rethink or recontextualize several aspects
of my argument. Jody Enders, Nadia Margolis, Helen Solterer, and Jane
H. M. Taylor have also shared thoughts and suggestions about the book,
for which I am extremely grateful, as have Laurent Mayali, Joseph J. Dug-
gan, and Timothy Hampton. Leon Botstein has encouraged the project's
ambitions in a way not usually to tie expected from a college president.
I would like to thank, finally, my colleagues at Bard College and my stu-
dents in the Joan of Arc and Medieval Heresy seminars for their valuable
responses to this work at various stages.
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