Complex sentence: The trial record contains statements from Joan which the eyewitnesses later said astonished the court, since she was an illiterate peasant and yet was able to evade the theological pitfalls which the tribunal set up to entrap her.
Split into simpler sentences: The trial record contains statements from Joan that eyewitnesses later said astonished the court, since she was an illiterate peasant. She able to evade theological pitfalls that the tribunal set up to entrap her.