Interrogation of Joan of Arc by Karen Sullivan - 9780816632688

Interrogation of Joan of ArcAuthor(s): Karen Sullivan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816632688, 978-0816632688\nSynopsis\nA radical reassessment of the trial of Joan of Arc that gives a new sense of Joan in her time.\n\nThe transcripts of Joan of Arcs trial for heresy at Rouen in 1431 and the minutes of her interrogation have long been recognized as our best source of information about the Maid of Orleans. Historians generally view these legal texts as a precise account of Joans words and, by extension, her beliefs. Focusing on the minutes recorded by clerics, however, Karen Sullivan challenges the accuracy of the transcript. In The Interrogation of Joan of Arc, she re-reads the record not as a perfect reflection of a historical personalitys words, but as a literary text resulting from the collaboration between Joan and her interrogators.\n\nSullivan provides an illuminating and innovat.