Joan of Arc cannot be understood without accepting divine intervention as explanation

What was said

"You can't disentangle Joan of Arc's effect on the French at Orleans and for a little while thereafter from the medieval worldview that God is active in the world and through people at times. You just can't. The terms of the time are like there was this moment when God intervened. That's how it was understood by everybody at the time. And so that's that's the best explanation."

When pressed on whether Joan of Arc's military impact could be explained rationally, historian Dan Jones insisted that divine intervention remains the only historically accurate explanation. He rejected modern psychological or motivational frameworks, arguing that imposing secular interpretations violates the historical reality of how her contemporaries understood events. Jones compares dismissing the religious dimension to using modern sports psychology terminology for medieval warfare.