Friday, September 2, 2011

Based on the Second Process, list the crimes committed by Joan of Arc.

Joan of Arc's
trial was long and complex, first
ending with an abjuration, where Joan signed a document
attesting that her
visions were fake and swearing that she would cease to wear men's clothing.

Several days later, she was arrested again for her primary crime: wearing men's clothes
rather
than women's clothes. This arrest began the Second Process of Joan's
trial. There is a long
dialogue in her court cases where she makes it
exceedingly clear that she prefers dressing in
the clothes assigned to men
than in the clothes assigned to women. Unfortunately, this was a
criminal act
at the time, considered a crime against God, and was punishable by
death.


Joan of Arc was also accused of the crime of
claiming to have divine revelations,
because she renounced this confession as
well. Her visions were dismissed by the court as
untruthful and thus as
blasphemous. This is because Joan's missiondelivered, according to Joan,
by
these very visionsdid not line up with the goals or political aims of the Catholic
Church at
the time. The Catholic Church, therefore, needed to consider her
divine communication as fake in
order to avoid cognitive dissonance in their
faith.

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