With no reference to the previous month of interrogations, Promotor Estivet appeared in court on March 27 with his libellus, or book of charges, which included sorcery, wearing men’s clothes, heresy or at least strong suspicion of heresy, and many other things, all of which he intended to prove, as necessary, against Joan. After an exaggerated prologue, he recited seventy articles over two days, to each of which Joan made replies, sometimes referring to her earlier responses. He began with vague charges of consulting demons and foretelling the future, which Joan simply denied. When he accused her of heretical propositions, he gave no examples, since there obviously were none. But he did say they were extremely bad: “uttering, voicing, affirming, publishing, and engraving on the hearts of simple people false and lying propositions infected with heresy, and actually heretical, and contrary to the Catholic faith—propositions altogether scandalous, sacrilegious, contrary to good customs, and offensive to pious ears.” By having Estivet present his libellus, Cauchon remedied a major defect of his process complained about by Lohier, but he ignored this whole exchange later on, except for some answers about male clothing and submission to the Church.

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Trial Begun: Charges, Promises of Proof, Denials

  • Henry Ansgar Kelly

摘要

With no reference to the previous month of interrogations, Promotor Estivet appeared in court on March 27 with his libellus, or book of charges, which included sorcery, wearing men’s clothes, heresy or at least strong suspicion of heresy, and many other things, all of which he intended to prove, as necessary, against Joan. After an exaggerated prologue, he recited seventy articles over two days, to each of which Joan made replies, sometimes referring to her earlier responses. He began with vague charges of consulting demons and foretelling the future, which Joan simply denied. When he accused her of heretical propositions, he gave no examples, since there obviously were none. But he did say they were extremely bad: “uttering, voicing, affirming, publishing, and engraving on the hearts of simple people false and lying propositions infected with heresy, and actually heretical, and contrary to the Catholic faith—propositions altogether scandalous, sacrilegious, contrary to good customs, and offensive to pious ears.” By having Estivet present his libellus, Cauchon remedied a major defect of his process complained about by Lohier, but he ignored this whole exchange later on, except for some answers about male clothing and submission to the Church.