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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: Politics on Trial: Joan of Arc vs the Church
Description: Today’s political trial took place in 1431 though it was still being re-litigated right through to the twentieth century: the case of Joan of Arc, charged with heresy by the Church and burned at the stake. Why was a political prisoner tried in an ecclesiastical court? Why were her interrogators so obsessed by her choice in clothes? How did Joan seek to explain her visions? And was this trial any more of a fix than the later trials that exonerated her?
Available now on PPF+: Socrates part 2, in which David explores the verdict of history on this ca...