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Jeanne d’Arc before her judges
Rouen, 1431: the trial word for word
A trial staged to prove that the coronation at Reims was the work of a heretic, whose register became the truest portrait of her we have. Two lessons: the France of 1429, to see what was at stake, then the trial itself, with her answers quoted from W. P. Barrett’s 1932 translation of the register Pierre Champion edited.
Context first
This one opens without an account, and it is read before the lessons.
- The place
- The era
- The people
The lessons in this path
- 1Jeanne d’Arc before her judgesThis trial was staged to prove that the coronation at Reims was a heretic’s doing. What it mostly did was keep, word for word, what Jeanne answered.5 min
How these lessons are written
Each lesson starts from a brief and from period sources: Wikisource, Gallica, Persée, archives and museum websites. A fact that cannot be tied to one of them does not get written. The sources are listed under each lesson, linked directly.
The rhythm
A lesson takes five minutes, four questions at the end, then a review the next day, at three days, seven, twenty-one and sixty. It is that spaced return that makes what you read stay. One a day is enough, and nothing stops you doing several.