Routier Perrinet Gressart: Joan of Arc’s Penultimate Enemy

Even my English friends have to admit, however reluctantly, that Joan of Arc played a significant role in the Hundred Years War. Was she the saintly hero portrayed by contemporary and later French writers: “Oh, all you blind people”, asks Christine de Pisan in her Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc (written in 1430), before she goes on to ask, “can you not detect God’s hand in this? If you cannot you are truly stupid for how else could the Maid who strikes you all down dead have been sent to us? And you ...