HIST 312 The Trial of Joan of Arc

This course provides a deep study the extraordinary person, career, and trial of Joan of Arc. Her heresy trial in particular provides an important window into contemporary attitudes towards not only politics and authority but also religion and gender. Because the course is a reading seminar students will also be afforded ample opportunities to explore the methods of scholarly historical inquiry, with emphasis on the methods by which historical knowledge is produced, and then to assess the strengths and limitations of such attempts to reconstruct and comprehend peoples and cultures from the deep past, both historically as well as historiographically.