Joan of Arc
Gone Medieval
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Do We Know How Instrumental Joan Was in Raising the Siege of Orleans?
The victory at orleans really cement her position in charles's mind, at least as a holy woman. The evidence about her role is very mixed. It's quite surprising the number of sources which barely mention joan at all - given how crucial we think she was. But then there are other sources which describe her role in quite interesting terms. In a sense, i wonder whether actually we don't need to draw a distinction between how instrumental she was in a military sense and the kind of symbolic nature of what she does.
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