Joan of Arc?

Question

what is the real story of Joan of arc, on the internet and in books its all very complicated to read, but how do people see her, like how did she end up in the army and why did they burn her at the stake.

Thanks

Answer 1

The best way to sum up Joan of Arc is that a simple peasant girl appeared claiming she had visions and voices for her to rid France of the invading English. Believing her to be sent by God, a desperate French King, Charles VII, uses Joan to inspire the French troops - badly demoralised after French losses at Agincourt.

The English - anxious to kill her at any cost, do everything to prove that she is not sent by god - but is a witch. Captured by the English, she is tried by an ecclesiastical court, found guilty of Heresy, and burnt at the stake.

Answer 2

Those are all very complicated questions. Here is a way too simple view of it. She believed that she could hear the voice of God, it told her to join the army to fight for her people. Eventually people became afraid of her, and thought that she was an abomination, so they burned her at the stake - which is what they used to call 'trial by fire'. People believed that if the person was in the protection of God, then that God would protect them, and if not they were actually abominations.

Again, this is not an historical account, just a simplification to help you understand a bit.

Answer 3

Joan of Arc was a young woman of France who believed through private revelations from God that she would deliver France from the oppression of the English overlords. She believed through her visions thst she saw St. Catherine. Most people saw her as delusional until after the French under her leadership won a major battle of Orleans which began to the process of freedom.Under the French regent , Charles IX who used her as a tool after the legend of the French heroine known as the Maid of Orleans, gave her the lead as a military commander. Eventually Joan of Arc was captured and imprisoned. After publicly proclaiming that she received revelations from God which at the time was viewed with skepticism and /or disbelief , the Church viewed her as a heretic and ordered her death. They gave her chance to repute her visions and she consented and reduced her sentence to prison. But she later recanted and that is why they burned her at the stake. She would be later vindicated a few years later and canonized as a saint in 1925 by Pope Pius XI.

Answer 4

This is why people study History. To find out all the real answers of what really happened and why. For instance: I'm convinced that our poor sailors were sacrificed at Pearl Harbor. Nimitz would not take the job as commander of the base because he knew it would likely be the first target. And hundreds of other things point to the fact: We knew they would come but had to wake up America, and so leaders quit fighting the inevitable and let it happen. Sometime it's hard to row upstream.

Answer 5

More praise for BrianT for distilling it down to 2 paras. I'd only add -though- that after the French King 'used' Joan, to rally morale he got tired of her, and what's more his military commanders were jealous of her success and reputation. So, although the French troops and people loved her, the 'big end of town' (in this case Paris) was happy when the British got hold of her (in fact I think that some of them 'sold' her to the British...)

Answer 6

when she joined d army France was at a state of war with England
she claimed to be d chosen one to save France thus she ended
up in the army. she was burnt for heiracy they accused her 4 cutting her hair and wearing male dress as it was prohibited in the bible.

Answer 7

Brian t's answer is excellent.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc