Joan Of Arc: One Courageous Woman

Joan of Arc is known as a courageous woman of her time and even today. She is well known for the battles she fought in France. Though she was a woman, she fought a man’s war. This was an unusual characteristic for a woman of her time. But through all her trials and tribulations she withstood it all.

When Joan was about 12 years old, she began hearing “voices” of St. Catherine and St. Margaret believing they were sent by God. She became devoted to theses 2 virgin saints. Joan planned never to marry and had sworn to remain a virgin. Joan like all the village peasants, followed a set routine of farm life, laboring from dawn to dusk but there were times for fun, young and old alike. As Joan grew older, she spent less and less time with he

The first public session on the trial was Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The doctors of law and religion soon began to press her on her wearing of men’s clothes and the voices— their goal was to prove that Joan’s voices came from the devil, and not from God, as Joan insisted. (Brooks 123). They saw her spiritual independence as a threat to themselves and the church. Joan grew increasingly restive and more stubborn in her refusal to swear oaths. She placed herself in a dangerous situation by claiming to be in communication with the world beyond, to which she referred by the general designation of her “voice” or “voices.” (Pernoud and Clin 111). Aside from the question of soul saving, the judges feared that Joan might physically escape her imprisonment through the use of sorcery.

Joan managed to convince the French authorities of her mission and was put in charge of an army. She took grate care in the spiritual preparation of the army. Joan was firmly committed to the old rules of chivalry, which restricted the time within which warfare was allowed, imposing a truce on Sunday’s and feast days. Her courage was a blazing inspiration and the soldiers accepted her with little complaint (Krull 20). Joan set off for Rheims, defeating the English in many battles along the way and freeing all the French towns between Orléans and Rheimis. The next part of Joan’s mission was to have the Dauphin crowned king. On May 9, the day after the siege of Orléans, Joan Count Dunois and an army contingent went to report to the Dauphin. At this moment of Joan’s great glory the people of Reims went wild demonstrating t

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