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Mémoires d'un magistrat d'Arras 1448-1467
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ISBN: 2849092231 9782849092231 Year: 2006 Volume: *204 Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand Paléo


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Jeanne d'Arc: une époque, un rayonnement, colloque d'histoire médiévale, Orléans-octobre 1979
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ISBN: 222203048X 9782222030485 Year: 1982 Publisher: Paris Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Joan of Arc: the early debate
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ISBN: 0851155723 0851158803 9780851155722 9780851158808 0585165076 9780585165073 Year: 2002 Publisher: Woodbridge Boydell

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Joan of Arc arrived at the French court claiming to be sent by God to come to the aid of the dauphin Charles at the nadir of French fortune: the moment when the dauphin was at the greatest risk of losing the monarchy to the English forever. But the Maid's assertion that she was sent by God, the most controversial aspect of her career, has until now either been taken for granted or overridden by claims of her employment for political expediency; little attempt has been made to bring the theological principles of the Catholic doctrine of discretio spirituum (the discernment of spirits) to her case." "This book seeks to answer the question of whether contemporaries thought that Joan was diabolically or divinely inspired, a crucial but almost completely neglected issue. The author gathers and examines the extant theological documents indicating the presence of a genuine theological debate about Joan's mission, and also takes into account the two major literary works dealing with her, Christine de Pizan's Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc and Martin Le Franc's Le champion des dames, as well as Joan's own letter to the English, while the appendices offer translations of pertinent Latin and French texts.

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