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Happy Times
03-26-08, 02:48 AM
In case someone else is interested in this type of reading, i found this.

THE TRIAL OF JEANNE D'ARC
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN AND FRENCH DOCUMENTS

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/joanofarc-trial.html

CONTENTS

Introduction vii

Here Begin the Proceedings 3

The Officers Appointed take Oath 26

The First Public Session 12

Thursday, February 22nd. Second Session 41

February 24th. Third Session 48

Tuesday, February 27th. Fourth Session 57

March 1st. Fifth Session 67

Saturday, March 3rd. Sixth Session 77

First Session in Prison 89

The Vicar of the Lord Inquisitor is Summoned 94

Tuesday, March 13th 103

Thursday, March 15th In Prison 119

Saturday, March 17th. In Prison 125

The Statements are Presented to the Assessors 133

Here Begins the Ordinary Trial 138

The Tenor of the Articles of Accusation.146

This Wednesday after Palm Sunday, 1431 181

Saturday, the Last Day of March, in Prison 240

The Digest is Submitted to the Assessors243

The Tenor of the Deliberations 252

Eleven Advocates of the Court of Rouen Give their Opinions 271

Jeanne is Charitably Exhorted 285

Public Admonition of The Maid 290

She is Threatened with Torture 303

The Deliberations of the University of Paris are Read 307

Here follow the Articles concerning the Words and Deeds of Jeanne, commonly known as The Maid 315

The Deliberation and Doctrinal Judgment of the Venerable Faculty of Decrees 324

Jeanne's Faults are Expounded to Her 330

The Public Sermon. Jeanne Recants 341

Sentence after the Abjuration 346

The Trial for Relapse. Jeanne Resumes Man's Dress 349

Tuesday, May 29th 352

May 30th, the Last Day of This Trial 358

Subsequent Documents 367

Dramatis Personae by Pierre Champion 387

On the Trial of Jeanne d'Arc by Pierre Champion 475

Bibliography 541

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIO [Not in HTML Version]

Many came gladly, but they kissed her hands as little as she could help. frontispiece

Near the village of Domremy stands a certain large and ancient tree.35

"Go," said Robert to Jeanne, "go and come what may" 69

Jeanne entered boldly and knelt straightway before her King. 99

The Maid drove out two Daughters of Joy and thereby broke her sword 141

The Bastard of Wandomme's men seized her and tore her from her horse 169

The Demoiselle and the Lady of Beaurevoir offered her a woman's dress 199

At last she leaped and commended herself to God and Our Lady 229

She said in answer, "Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth" 259

"Take everything peacefully, Jeanne; have no care for thy martyrdom" 289

"Bishop," said Jeanne when he came in to her, "I die through you" 319

She cried upon the name of Jesus; six times she cried out "Jhésus!" .363

HunterICX
03-26-08, 05:38 AM
Great find:up:
saw docs and red about Joan of Arc, but never red the trial

HunterICX

Tchocky
03-26-08, 07:16 AM
In London last summer I managed to grab a ticket to Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan on the South Bank, with Anne-Marie Duff and paterson Joseph.
One of the finest plays I've ever seen, I still drag out the text every so often to have a read :up: