Joan of Arc and Her Doctors

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Marie-Véronique Clin

Published:

2021

Publisher:

Routledge

Joan of Arc’s examinations and treatments by doctors and matrons constitute important evidence about both contemporary medical practices and Joan’s physical health. A monk might be both a doctor and a surgeon. Throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, physicians were educated and trained in the house of a master and in the hospital. Tax records found in the Taille de Paris in 1313 indicate that an Ameline la miresse had established herself on the rue Poree in Paris. In 1136, another woman, Heluidis, called medica, is recorded as treating the wounds and sores of the poor in the parish of Saint-Martin de Fives in the north of France. The records of Joan of Arc’s three trials—Poitiers, the condemnation, and the nullification—reveal some aspects of contemporary medical practice. The doctors palpated her and felt her pulse, which was then common technical practice.

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