Saint Joan/
Shaw,George Barnard
Saint Joan/ - U.P.: Maple Press, - 222p. 18cm
Joan the original and presumptuous
Joan and Socrates
Contrast with Napoleon
Was Joan innocent or guilty?
Joan's good looks
Joan's social position
Joan's voices and visions
Evolutionary appetite
Mere iconography does not matter
Modern education which Joan escaped
Failures of the voices
Joan a Galtonic visualizer
Joan's manliness and militarism
Was Joan suicidal?
Joan summed up
Joan's immaturity and ignorance
Maid in literature
Protestant misunderstandings of the Middle Ages
Comparative fairness of Joan's trial
Joan not tried as a political offender
Church uncompromised by its amends
Cruelty, modern and medieval
Catholic anti-clericalism
Catholicism not yet Catholic enough
Law of change is the law of God
Credulity, modern and medieval
Toleration, modern and medieval
Variability of toleration
Conflict between genius and discipline
Joan as theocrat
Unbroken success essential in theocracy
Modern distortions of Joan's history
History always out of date
Real Joan not marvellous enough for us
Stage limits of historical representation
Void in the Elizabethan drama
Tragedy, not melodrama
Inevitable flatteries of tragedy
Some well-meant proposals for the improvement of the play
Epilogue
To the critics, lest they should feel ignored.
97893680005362
Christian women saints
822 / SHA/S
Saint Joan/ - U.P.: Maple Press, - 222p. 18cm
Joan the original and presumptuous
Joan and Socrates
Contrast with Napoleon
Was Joan innocent or guilty?
Joan's good looks
Joan's social position
Joan's voices and visions
Evolutionary appetite
Mere iconography does not matter
Modern education which Joan escaped
Failures of the voices
Joan a Galtonic visualizer
Joan's manliness and militarism
Was Joan suicidal?
Joan summed up
Joan's immaturity and ignorance
Maid in literature
Protestant misunderstandings of the Middle Ages
Comparative fairness of Joan's trial
Joan not tried as a political offender
Church uncompromised by its amends
Cruelty, modern and medieval
Catholic anti-clericalism
Catholicism not yet Catholic enough
Law of change is the law of God
Credulity, modern and medieval
Toleration, modern and medieval
Variability of toleration
Conflict between genius and discipline
Joan as theocrat
Unbroken success essential in theocracy
Modern distortions of Joan's history
History always out of date
Real Joan not marvellous enough for us
Stage limits of historical representation
Void in the Elizabethan drama
Tragedy, not melodrama
Inevitable flatteries of tragedy
Some well-meant proposals for the improvement of the play
Epilogue
To the critics, lest they should feel ignored.
97893680005362
Christian women saints
822 / SHA/S