INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
DECLINE OF FEUDALISM
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Question
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She was accused of being heretic.
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She was a woman.
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The English thought she was weird.
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She was accused of insanity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Joan of Arc was tried as a heretic not because she was a woman, though that factor played an important part, nor because she heard voices, but because she heard voices telling her to attack the English, ” Hobbins writes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Her most serious crime, according to the tribunal, was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. After refusing to submit to the church, her sentence was read on May 24: She was to be turned over to secular authorities and executed.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1430 St. Joan of Arc was captured by the English and their French collaborators and tried as a heretic. Convicted, she was burned to death on May 30, 1431, at age 19.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to historians, Joan of Arc was 19 when she was burnt at the stake in Rouen by the English on 30 May, 1431. She died of smoke inhalation. The Cardinal of Winchester is recorded as having ordered her to be burnt a second time.