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Table of contents
Table of Contents
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Preface to Saint Joan
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
The Evolutionary Appetite
The Mere Iconography Does Not Matter
The 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
The Maid in Literature
Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle Ages
Comparative Fairness of Joan’s Trial
Joan Not Tried as a Political Offender
The Church Uncompromised by Its Amends
Cruelty, Modern and Medieval
Catholic Anti-Clericalism
Catholicism Not Yet Catholic Enough
The Law of Change Is the Law of God
Credulity, Modern and Medieval
Toleration, Modern and Medieval
Variability of Toleration
The Conflict Between Genius and Discipline
Joan as Theocrat
Unbroken Success Essential in Theocracy
Modern Distortions of Joan’s History
History Always Out of Date
The Real Joan Not Marvellous Enough for Us
The Stage Limits of Historical Representation
A Void in the Elizabethan Drama
Tragedy Not Melodrama
The Inevitable Flatteries of Tragedy
Some Well-Meant Proposals for the Improvement of the Play
The Epilogue
To the Critics, Lest They Should Feel Ignored
Dramatis Personae
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