The lovely forms of Francis Hutcheson's six senses, inspired as they were by the grace of an honest and distant God, have the slope-like qualities of the German Idealists. An arc of history curving toward justice. A star in the East bringing good news. Destiny or divine guidance.
I say slope-like to take benefit from the Agincourt Effect Incline. In their attack on the English, overconfident French Knights, who greatly outnumbered the uncivilized English were moving up a gentle hill in heavy mud. It's what the military call a killing ground, the Pride of France fell prey to the English Archers.
It took a good 15 years of defeat after defeat, and France in the person of a French King would have been lost at the Siege of Orléans, had it not been for a very young peasant girl dressed as an armored maiden with sword on a mission from god. She was a very competent and fanatical leader of men who was able to drum some sense into the Dauphin Charles who was standing in for his dad who was safe in Paris having one of his manic episodes - Dauphin is French for the French King's Eldest Son, and also for the Dolphins that appear on his coat of arms. Amongst her other talents Joan was able to influence wind direction which was rather critical.
When things settled down, when she was about 19 years old, despite the influence she'd had on the course of the 100 Years War in France's favor, Joan was basically accused of being a heretic by French Authorities for wearing men's clothes. Had she been able to stick to it and admit that wearing boys clothes was wrong she'd have done time and then, as long as she wore women's clothes, probably found a future in the church as a leader of Crusades, but there was something about Joan that pissed off the boys. While in jail she was taunted, raped by a nobleman and what with one thing and another she started wearing boys clothes again. French Authorities handed her over to the English, and for this brave, patriotic, loyal, fierce French soldier, who refused to fight on Sunday, the Arc of history curved toward a Justices that convicted her to be burned at the stake.
You might think well, well, well and ask for a reminder of Bernard Shaw's portrayal of her as a deeply intense challenge to the institutions of the church and of the state. For the State she was a female of no apparent lineage, a loose canon who could rouse the soldiers which was just downright dangerous. For the Church she appeared to have a direct communication with God, which put her at odds with a church that saw its role as maintaining a unity of doctrine by keeping for itself the hard work of interpreting the word of god.
Anyway, Joan was burned to death in 1431, her conviction was overturned in 1456 and not until May 16th 1920 was she canonized as a Saint.
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