pulled from her horse and became the prisoner of a follower of John of Luxemburg. Joan was sold to the English for a sum that would measure up to be about several hundred thousand dollars in modern money. Before she was handed over to the English she tried to escape by throwing herself from a seventy-foot tower. Miraculously she was uninjured. Some believe this was one of her witch like powers of levitation. This was one of the reasons she was treated to harshly in prison; for fear that she would escape. At first she was chained around the neck, hands, and feet, and kept in an iron cage. The English were scared of their newly acquired prisoner and were determined to take her life. The only thing they could put her to death for was being a heretic or a witch, not for anything do with her victories over England. Court proceedings took place for over a month without the presence of Joan. Throughout the trial Cauchons assessors consisted almost entirely of Frenchmen, mainly doctors and theologians from the University of Paris. She was held in a secular prison guarded by English soldiers, instead of in the church prison where she could have been attended to by women. It was undoubtedly that she insisted on wearing mens clothing for privacy and modesty. Also, she was not granted any spiritual privileges, such as attending mass. During her trial it was noted that despite the judges trying to confuse her she kept her simplicity, piety, and good sense at every turn. At times Joan simply refused to answer some of their questions. This can be seen two ways, one is that she did not simply want to answer their questions because she was guilty which lead some to believe she was a witch. The other one is more comprehensible, it was a known fact that she was uneducated and most likely the judges were using language that she did not understand fully and thus she did not know how to answer their questions. On one occasion, Joan announce...
