Joan of Arc news....
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Thanks Renfield. Some years ago the same claim was made -- that Joanie wasn't burned -- on "Unsolved Mysteries". A few years after the supposed execution, a woman claiming to be Joan d'Arc came back home to testify about her own identity, probably seeking some kind of inheritance, I forget... |
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Olivier Bouzy, a medieval historian and co-director of the Joan of Arc centre in Orléans, said: "These theories have been knocked down 100 times. This is about people who are not historians, who don't understand the mentality of the Middle Ages, looking for a contemporary explanation.
This guy nailed it without a doubt. They kept records about these events even back then. It is ludicrous to think that the English could have acted with such duplicity. Joan of Arc was martyred in 1431.
England's James I was interested in the study of witchcraft, which he considered a branch of theology. As the King of England, he attended the trial of the North Berwick Witches, in which several people were convicted of using witchcraft to send a storm against the ship that had carried James and Anne, his queen, from Denmark. James became obsessed with the threat posed by witches and witchcraft and in 1597 wrote the Daemonologie, a tract in favour of the existence of witchcraft.
Marcel Gay the “author” of this pablum must suffer from clutter of the mind that well known malady arising from post modern vacuum of unbelief.
La Pucelle d’Orleans was a most intriguing figure.
People will buy any novel concerning the revered Joan. After the da Vinci Code phenomena, all historical figures are fair game to be rehashed as a conspiracy.
Yea, right and the moon is made of green cheese.