Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured (57 page)

66
“that when they saw”: Ibid., 178.

67
“Glasdale, Glasdale, give in”: Ibid., 189.

68
“Afterwards [Glasdale] was fished up”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 81.

69
“Then the Maid came up to me”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 139.

70
“took up her standard”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 281.

71
“shook the standard so vigorously”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 171.

72
“The she-warrior”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 110.

73
“a maid all alone”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 95.

74
“There fell by the hand”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 239.

75
“heard from the soldiers”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 155.

76
“the myth of English invincibility”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 64.

77
“eight sous for having beached”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 196.

78
“giving wondrous praise”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 91.

79
“He was transfigured before them”: Matthew 17:2.

80
“glistening … as no fuller”: Mark 9:3.

81
“And when they lifted”: Matthew 17:8.

82
“withered away to its roots”: Mark 11:20.

83
“the appearance of his countenance”: Luke 9:29.

84
“suddenly a light”: Acts of the Apostles 9:3–5.

85
“Moses did not know”: Exodus 34:29–30.

86
“lo, a bright cloud”: Matthew 17:5.

87
“O unique virgin”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 111–12.

88
“Master Pierre de Versailles”: Ibid., 303–4.

89
“And all the crowd”: Luke 6:19.

90
“bringing paternosters”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 125.

Chapter VII: A Leaping Stag

1
“had her supper, eating”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 139.

2
“Take and eat”: Matthew 26:26.

3
“very abstemious”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 296.

4
“In the Middle Ages”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 30.

5
“as a trainer holds back”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 199.

6
“Look back and see”: Ibid., 200.

7
“Oh God! What do I see!”: Schiller,
Joan of Arc
, 172.

8
“departed discomfited and in confusion”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 172.

9
The
Chronique de la Pucelle
reported: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 99.

10
“Do not take such long and copious”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 141.

11
“say here in the presence”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 283.

12
“some verisimilitude”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 165.

13
“through their great prowess”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 86.

14
“commanded the nobles of all”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 99.

15
“a very small thing”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 93.

16
taken at the Battle of Verneuil: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 157.

17
“not to fear the numbers”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 306.

18
“set off to the attack”: Ibid., 157.

19
“surrender this place”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 104.

20
“Oh gentle duke”: Ibid., 105.

21
“defended themselves most virtuously”: Ibid.

22
“Our Lord has doomed the English”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 158.

23
“During the attack”: Ibid., 157.

24
“large garrison of their own”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 108.

25
“lords, knights, squires, captains”: Ibid.

26
“news came that the English”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 159.

27
“Ah, my good constable”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 308.

28
“Joan, it has been said”: Ibid., 111.

29
“a man’s heart inside a woman’s body”: Goldstone,
The Maid and the Queen
, 248.

30
“6,000 soldiers of which”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 112.

31
“Many of the King’s men”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 159.

32
“poorly timed … incredibly ineffective”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 114.

33
“In God’s name!”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 159.

34
“in the leading and drawing up”: Ibid., 121.

35
“In the conduct of war”: Ibid., 160.

36
six thousand men: Ibid., 117.

37
“one of the most lopsided”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 22.

38
“vanguard, supplies, artillery”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 118.

39
“five hundred elite mounted archers”: Ibid.

40
“uttered a great cry”: Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc
, 61.

41
In one Christian legend: Martin,
Book of Symbols
, 285.

42
a manifestation of purity and nobility: Psalms 42:1, 18:33.

43
“Flying Stag … arising”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 96–97.

44
diminish the stag’s role: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 218.

45
“the unplanned, that turns the tide”: Ibid., 120.

46
The English soldiers’ attention: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 71.

47
“four thousand men in dead”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 141.

48
“master of the horse”: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 200.

49
“Whatever the relationship”: Gies,
Knight in History
, 43.

50
“had been crowned and consecrated”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 283.

51
The letter was a circular: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 125.

52
“copied and transmitted”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 94.

53
“chased the English out”: Ibid.

54
“a small piece of paper”: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 80.

55
“welcomed the soldier and the Maid”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 128–29.

56
“told continually by their Anglo-Burgundian leaders”: Ibid., 131.

57
a popular preacher could summon: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 4 n.

58
“since it was he who was entrusted”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 101.

59
“Joan the Maid commands and informs”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 94.

60
“In God’s name”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 143.

61
“set up all of the French gunpowder”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 132.

62
“the dauphin dealt mercifully”: Ibid.

63
“Look over there!”: Schiller,
Joan of Arc
, 199.

64
Regnault’s flock hadn’t seen him: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 221.

65
“lance, which wounded Our Lord”: Anonymous,
Song of Roland
, 76.

66
“secreted away by monks”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 133.

67
“Magic Porridge Pot”: Grimm and Grimm,
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
, 475.

68
“all night long the city resounded”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 221.

69
“ornamented by hundreds of precious stones”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 229.

70
“I anoint you for the realm”: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 94.

71
“the royal entourage judged”: Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc
, 67.

72
“Everyone cried ‘
Noel!
’ ”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 224.

73
“When the Maid saw”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 134.

74
“questions of precedence and etiquette”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 33.

75
“from the infinite Creator”: Lovejoy,
Great Chain of Being
, 190.

76
“This girl is ambitious and unscrupulous”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 39.

77
“as a means of hiding”: Wheeler and Wood,
Fresh Verdicts
, 43.

78
the ten plagues God visited on Egypt: Exodus 7:14–12:29.

79
“whenever and wherever tournaments”: Horrox,
Black Death
, 130.

80
“You stand alone”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 82.

81
“the Maid,” Dunois testified: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 143–44.

82
“I sometimes heard Joan say”: Ibid., 160.

83
“produced an extraordinary perception”: Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc
, 70.

84
“You Charles, King of France”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 100–101.

85
“the proof Joan offered”: Ibid., 98.

86
“The famous holy oil”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 72.

87
“Great and mighty prince”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 95–96.

88
“I wrote to you and sent”: Ibid., 97.

89
“among the most violent”: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 64.

Chapter VIII: Black Horseman

1
While Charles lay prone: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 119.

2
“in a frenzied and gory assault”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 59.

3
“sympathetic magic”: Frazer,
Golden Bough
, 26–27.

4
“for purpose of removing”: Ibid., 489.

5
“If my Voices do not answer”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 64.

6
“Oh, dear Dunois”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 69.

7
“You will miss the fighting”: Ibid., 73.

8
“the medieval Western European conception”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 40.

9
“massive gate houses … with angular towers”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 148.

10
“What voices do you need”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 76.

11
as many as six or seven thousand: As with most medieval head counts, this one varies from source to source—by thousands.

12
“the duke of Bedford would come”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 142.

13
“expressing optimism that the King”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 118.

14
“eight months of drifting about”: Twain,
Personal Recollections
, 213.

15
“The expedition seemed”: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 44.