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Tortured subjects [electronic resource] : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman.

By: Silverman, Lisa.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Torture -- France -- History | Criminal justice, Administration of -- France -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.6/7 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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 excuteur 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 excuteur 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.

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