Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orléans

Joan of Arc ca. 1450-1500. Oil paint. National Archives, France {{PD-US}}

There has always been a marked trending to idealize the life of some personages. It often makes of them, true historic legends. For this reason, it becomes a difficult task, to analize their existence and deeds. Reality tends to confuse with fantasy! If we add to all this, a strong magical-religious component and how far away in time they are... any investigation about them, will always have the risk of a lack in objectivity and hence can lead to the wrong conclusions. There is no doubt, this is a major challenge to study the events and characters of the past.