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Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs) QUOTES

Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs) QUOTES

1 " [A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light. "

― Christine de Pizan , Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs)

2 " [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. "

― Christine de Pizan , Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs)

3 " Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible. "

― Christine de Pizan , Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs)

4 " When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to be the champion who casts the rebels down and feeds France with the sweet, nourishing milk of peace, here indeed is something quite extraordinary!

For if God performed such a great number of miracles through Joshua who conquered many a place and cast down many an enemy, he, Joshua, was a strong and powerful man. But, after all, a woman – a simple shepherdess – braver than any man ever was in Rome! As far as God is concerned, this was easily accomplished.

But as for us, we never heard tell of such an extraordinary marvel, for the prowess of all the great men of the past cannot be compared to this woman's whose concern it is to cast out our enemies. This is God's doing: it is He who guides her and who has given her a heart greater than that of any man. "

― Christine de Pizan , Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs)