Joan of Arc’s real genius was her ability to wield the epistemological ideas that overturned the backward axioms of the Middle Ages and create a Renaissance. As historian Gabriel Hanotaux wrote:
“Joan of Arc saved France; she also helped save Christianity out of the crisis where the moral unity of the world had become in great danger of failing. It is fitting, therefore, that the Church erect her on its altar, as it is fitting that France and humanity celebrates her for all times to come.” Gabriel Hanotaux, Jeanne d’Arc.
