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Saint Joan (Hardcover)
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SAINT JOAN by BERNARD SHAWA. Contents . .: PREFACE: Joan the
Original and Presumptuous . 7..loan and Socrates . . 8Contrast with
Napoleon . 9Was Joan Innocent or Guilty ? . . IIJoans Good Looks .
13Joans Social Position . . 14Joans Voices and Visions 16The
Evolutionary Appetite 19The Mere Iconography does not Matter 21The
Modern Education which Joan Escaped 21Failures of the Voices 24Joan
a Galtonic Visualize 25Joans Manliness and Militarism 25Was Joan
Suicidal ? 28Joan Summed Up 29Joans Immaturity and Ignorance 30The
Maid in Literature 31Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle
Ages 35Comparative Fairness of Joans Trial 36Joan not tried as a
Political Offender 38The Church Uncompromised by its Amends
41Cruelty, Modern and Medieval 43Catholic AntiClericalism
45Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough 45The Law of Change is the
Law of God 47Credulity, Modern and Medieval 49Toleration, Modern
and Medieval 50Variability of Toleration 52The Conflict between
Genius and Discipline 53Joan as Theocrat 55Unbroken Success
essential in Theocracy 56Modem Distortions of Joans History
57History always Out of Date 58The Real Joan not Marvellous Enough
for Us 58The Stage Limits of Historical Representation 60A Void in
the Elizabethan Drama.. 61Tragedy, not Melodrama 62The Inevitable
Flatteries of Tragedy 63Some Wellmeant Proposals for the
Improvement of 65the Play . .The Epilogue . . 66To the Critics,
lest they should feel Ignored . 67SAINT JOAN . . . 7. PREFACE: JOAN
THE ORIGINAL AND PRESUMPTUOUS JOAN OF ARC, a village girl from the
Vosges, was bomabout 1412 burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery
in1431 rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456 designatedVenerable in
1904 declared Blessed in 1908 and finallycanonized in 1920, She is
the most notable Warrior Saintin the Christian calendar, and the
queerest fish among theeccentric worthies of the Middle Ages.
Though a professedand most pious Catholic, and the projector of a
Crusadeagainst the Husites, she was In fact one of the first
Protestant martyrs. She was also one of the first apostles of
Nationalism, and the first French practitioner of Napoleonic
realismin warfare as distinguished from the sporting ransom
gambling chivalry of her time. She was the pioneer ofrational
dressing for women, and, like Queen Christina ofSweden two
centuries later, to say nothing of Catalina deErauso and
innumerable obscure heroines who have disguised themselves as men
to serve as soldiers and sailors, she refused to accept the
specific womans lot, and dressedand fought and lived as men did.
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