Joan of Arc - thoughts?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Ok, so I'm thinking about it, and it's pretty ironic that the religious figures who Joan of Arc said she spoke to are of the same faith that sold her and burned her at the stake. A few years later, the Pope said "woops, my bad" and made her a saint and martyr.

Also, were her actions any more or less valid because she said she had divine intervention?

Have long been fascinated by Joan D'Arc. I wrote a paper about her at university,in which I also looked at Eva Peron. My prime source on Joan was Marina Warner's ' Joan Of Arc;The Image Of Female Heroism'.

To understand the myth it's necessary to understand the time and place. My view is Joan was possibly a quite bright,possibly obsessed or demented young woman who was manipulated by vested interests. She was ruthlessly murdered when she became an embarrassment.

Joan was executed in 1431. She was retried by the church for heresy posthumously and declared innocent in 1456. She was 'rehabilitated' as a great French symbol in the early C19th. She was not canonised by The Catholic church (declared a saint) until 1920.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner (University of California Press, 1981 ISBN 0-520-22464-7) is not so much a biography as a book about Joan of Arc or, more precisely, how she has been perceived by others over the centuries and how that perception has shaped her image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc...le_Heroism