Joan of Arc

A peasant girl from Domrémy who said saints spoke to her, Joan led French troops to lift the siege of Orléans in 1429 and saw Charles VII crowned. Captured, she was tried for heresy and burned at Rouen aged about 19.

Date: About 1412 to 1431VIII · Medieval networks and empires
Place: Domrémy · Orléans · Reims · RouenEurope
Laid out as: A lifeOne person’s life, from birth to death, and what they left behind.
Lessons: 7 planned, none written yet
Themes: War, conflict and security
Religion, belief and myth
Crime, punishment and slavery

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

IVoices in Domrémy
IITo the king
IIIOrléans
IVReims and the crowning
VCaptured
VITrial and death
VIIRetrial and sainthood

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

Joan of Arc
Charles VII
Pierre Cauchon

Objects

The trial record
Her signed letters

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestry Our species and the Old Stone Age Farming and the New Stone Age First cities and the Bronze Age The Iron Age and growing states The classical world After the empires Medieval networks and empires Oceans crossed Revolutions and the first factories Industry, empire and world war The world since 1945

1412 to 1431. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?