How do these people get published? In the news--in The Guardian, to be exact--is an article about a nonfiction book (and we use the term "nonfiction" here loosely) about Joan of Arc. In it, they are telling us that Joan was not a peasant girl, hearing voices from above to take up arms against the English, but was, in fact, the illegitimate child of a nobleman and schooled to be able to head armies as the legendary Maid. And further, that she didn't die at the stake, but was helped to escape by complicit Englishmen(!) whereupon she lived a long and happy life, even having children! (Some other poor sucker was burned in her stead).
Maybe she married into the bloodline of Jesus and had super-saintly descendants. Or maybe her descendants are related to Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa and they will be found on an island somewhere with all those secret CIA agents who actually engineered 9/11. Or...fill in your own blank.
To read the full article, go here.
These people get published because some people will believe anything.
But Joan of Arc is a good choice for a theory like this because she is so famous. She even figures in Henry VI by the Earl of Oford, which he wrote under the name of William Shakespeare.
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Posted by: Peter | September 22, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Ah! Another Oxfordian! Welcome, welcome!
Posted by: Jeri Westerson | September 22, 2007 at 02:09 PM