Tortured subjects : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman.
By: Silverman, Lisa
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226757536 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Torture -- France -- History | Criminal justice, Administration of -- France -- HistoryDDC classification: 364.6/7 LOC classification: HV8599.F7 | S55 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-255) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-255) and index.
pt. 1. An epistemology of pain. Murder in the Rue Noue : the trials of Jean Bourdil and the legal system of old regime France. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . ." : judges, legal manuals, and the theory of torture. "To know the truth from his mouth" : the practice of torture in the parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788 -- pt. 2. Pain, truth, and the body. "The executioner of his own life" : lay piety and the valorization of pain. "The tortur'd patient" : pain, surgery, and suffering. "...As if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch" : pain as politics.
