The Newance Window

We tend to think we live in a sceptical age, whereas people in the middle ages would believe in almost anything. In some ways, i think we're more likely to believe or believe in joan, than her contemporaries were. She was young, she was poor, she was a woman, she wasn't supposed to have a voice and the stakes for them were incredibly high. If god and the devil were real, it mattered which of them was speaking. We're more interested in her story whether or not we believe in god, without really having to worry about the possibility that satan's on the loose. So if we want to get to the real joan of arc, i