This week we're traveling to all of space and time, pretty much, with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure! Join us to learn more about Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, the film's disturbingly accurate grasp of the history teaching experience, Socrates (it's under So-Crates), and more!
Sources:
Joan of Arc:
P. Charlier, J. Poupon, et al. "The 'relics of Joan of Arc': A forensic multidisciplinary analysis," Forensic Science International (Online) 194:1 (2010). DOI:10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.09.006
Drunk History, "Joan of Arc Leads an Army (feat. Vanessa Hudgens) - Drunk History" Comedy Central YouTube (12 July 2018). https://youtu.be/TSDjeTgXZlw
History Editors, "Joan of Arc," HISTORY (10 March 2020). https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/saint-joan-of-arc
Jennie Cohen, "7 Surprising Facts About Joan of Arc," HISTORY (22 February 2021). https://www.history.com/news/7-surprising-facts-about-joan-of-arc?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history
Giuseppe d'Orsi, Paolo Tinuper, ""I heard voices...": From semiology, a historical review, and a new hypothesis on the presumed epilepsy of Joan of Arc," Epilepsy & Behavior 9:1 (August 2006): 152-7. https://doi-org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.04.020
Barbara Schildkrout, "Joan of Arc--Hearing Voices," The American Journal of Psychiatry 174:12 (1 December 2017): 1153-1154.
Daniel Hobbins, The Trial of Joan of Arc (Harvard University Press, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjz82qq.5
John R. Hughes, "Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: did he have seizures? Psychogenic or epileptic or both?" Epilepsy & Behavior 4:6 (December 2003): 793-796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2003.09.005
Susan Signe Morrison, A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages (Oxbow Books, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dnb3.25
Gareth Williams, "Manipulation and the Maid: Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans," Medieval Warfare 4:2 (2014): 25-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578334
On Socrates' Daemon: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/socrates-divine-sign-religion-practice-and-value-in-socratic-philosophy/
On visions of Mary: David Blackbourn, The Marpingen Visions: Rationalism, Religion, and the Rise of Modern Germany.
Genghis Khan:
Jack Weatherford, Secret History of the Mongol Queens. Crown Press, 2010.
Did Socrates Really Say "Like Sands Through the Hourglass"?Dialogues of Plato, Translations available at https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/index.htm
Plato, The Republic
Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 1469: The Hourglass: https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1469.htm
Film Background:
David Weiner, "How Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Nearly Fell Apart," Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-fell-apart-1186988/
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bill_and_teds_excellent_adventure
Shaurya Thapa, "Strangest Behind the Scenes Stories from the Bill and Ted Movies," ScreenRant, available at https://screenrant.com/strangest-behind-scenes-stories-bill-ted-movies/
