Further
information: Name
of Joan of Arc
Joan
was the daughter of Jacques
d'Arc and Isabelle
Romée in Domrémy,
a village which was then in the French part of the duchy
of Bar. Joan's parents owned about 50 acres (20 hectares)
of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor
position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the
local watch. They lived in an isolated patch of eastern France
that remained loyal to the French crown despite being surrounded by
pro-Burgundian lands. Several local raids occurred during her
childhood and on one occasion her village was burned.
At her
trial, Joan stated that she was about nineteen years old, which
implies she thought she was born around 1412. She later testified
that she experienced her first vision in 1425 at the age of 13, when
she was in her "father's garden"
and
saw visions of figures she identified as Saint
Michael, Saint
Catherine, and Saint
Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the
Dauphin to Reims for his coronation. She said she cried when they
left, as they were so beautiful.
At the
age of sixteen, she asked a relative named Durand Lassois to take her
to the nearby town of Vaucouleurs,
where she petitioned the garrison commander, Robert
de Baudricourt, for permission to visit the French Royal Court
at Chinon.
Baudricourt's sarcastic response did not deter her. She returned
the following January and gained support from two of Baudricourt's
soldiers: Jean
de Metz and Bertrand
de Poulengy.[30] According
to Jean de Metz, she told him that "I must be at the King's
side ... there will be no help (for the kingdom) if not from me.
Although I would rather have remained spinning [wool] at my mother's
side ... yet must I go and must I do this thing, for my Lord
wills that I do so." Under the auspices of Metz and Poulengy,
she was given a second meeting, where she made a prediction about a
military reversal at the Battle
of Rouvray near Orléans several days before messengers
arrived to report it. Given the distance of the battle's
location, Baudricourt felt Joan could only have known about the
French defeat by Divine revelation, and this convinced him to take
her seriously.
Victoria G.
En la actualidad es importante trabajar desde la perspectiva de género dados algunos conflictos en la sociedad. Evidenciar las luchas que han sorteado las mujeres a lo largo de la historia desde una posición de sometimiento es importante para que esa realidad no se repita de aquí en más...
ResponderEliminarJuana de Arco puede ser un gran ejemplo de lo antedicho, así como otras mujeres reconocidas que han generado avances con respecto a la visión de las mujeres en sociedad.