Hi, this is Kelly Chase and you are listening to History Detective, a podcast where I delve into the past to uncover the mysteries of history and then I explore how that story might be reimagined through soul.

This is Case 34, Joan of Arc.

Downsters of rabbit hole, mystery to soul, curiosity to follow.

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It is not often that you can say this about a teenage peasant girl from almost 600 years ago,

but there is so much scholarship about her.

The Google search results go on for days.

There are literally hundreds of books and thousands of scholarly articles written about her.

There have been countless movies and songs, including one that I wrote for this episode.

In fact, I'm going to put a link to a Spotify playlist in the show notes.

So that is pretty impressive for a teenage peasant from the 1400s who died before her 20th birthday.

Another interesting thing about Joan of Arc is that she has incredibly broad appeal.

Let's just say that everybody seems to love Joan of Arc.

So let's dive in and find out her story.

Thank you. Joan of Arc was born in 1412, but before we meet Joan, it is important to set a little context for what was going on in the world.

75 years before she was born, there was a serious conflict that was going on between France and England, so serious in fact that they now call it the 100 years war.

Even though it actually went for about 116 years.

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