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The difference between Joan's case and Shakespear's is thatShakespear was not illiterate. He had been to school, and knew asmuch Latin and Greek as most university passmen retain: that is, forpractical purposes, none at all. Joan was absolutely illiterate. 'Ido not know A from B' she said. But many princesses at that time andfor long after might have said the same. Marie Antoinette, forinstance, at Joan's age could not spell her own name correctly. Butthis does not mean that Joan was an ignorant person, or that shesuffered from the diffidence and sense of social disadvantage nowfelt by people who cannot read or write. If she could not writeletters, she could and did dictate them and attach full and indeedexcessive importance to them. When she was called a shepherd lass toher face she very warmly resented it, and challenged any woman tocompete with her in the household arts of the mistresses of wellfurnished houses. She understood the political and military situationin France much better than most of our newspaper fed universitywomen-graduates understand the corresponding situation of their owncountry today. Her first convert was the neighboring commandant atVaucouleurs; and she converted him by telling him about the defeat ofthe Dauphin's troops at the Battle of Herrings so long before he hadofficial news of it that he concluded she must have had a divinerevelation. This knowledge of and interest in public affairs wasnothing extraordinary among farmers in a war-swept countryside.Politicians came to the door too often sword in hand to bedisregarded: Joan's people could not afford to be ignorant of whatwas going on in the feudal world. They were not rich; and Joan workedon the farm as her father did, driving the sheep to pasture and soforth; but there is no evidence or suggestion of sordid poverty, andno reason to believe that Joan had to work as a hired servant works,or indeed to work at all when she preferred to go to confession, ordawdle about waiting for visions and listening to the church bells tohear voices in them. In short, much more of a young lady, and even ofan intellectual, than most of the daughters of our pettybourgeoisie.



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They had, however, one disability in common. To understand Joan'shistory it is not enough to understand her character: you mustunderstand her environment as well. Joan in a nineteenth-twentiethcentury environment is as incongruous a figure as she would appearwere she to walk down Piccadilly today in her fifteenth centuryarmor. To see her in her proper perspective you must understandChristendom and the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire and theFeudal System, as they existed and were understood in the MiddleAges. If you confuse the Middle Ages with the Dark Ages, and are inthe habit of ridiculing your aunt for wearing 'medieval clothes',meaning those in vogue in the eighteen-nineties, and are quiteconvinced that the world has progressed enormously, both morally andmechanically, since Joan's time, then you will never understand whyJoan was burnt, much less feel that you might have voted for burningher yourself if you had been a member of the court that tried her;and until you feel that you know nothing essential about her.

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