`Among the specific challenges that potential diagnoses such as schizophrenia face is the slim likelihood that any person with such a disorder could gain favor in the court of Charles VII.``  This assumes the court had means of knowing that Joan had schizophrenia or some other disorder. If we know that they had ways of knowing this, shouldn't we be able to that up with a citation? Also, if they were willing to accept a woman (in a male-dominant time) who claimed to have visions from God (when direct contact with God was believed to be something only male priests had) is it really that unlikely they'd accept someone with schizophrenia when they were as desperate as the French were, regardless of what Charles VI had?  `