TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silverman,Lisa
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Tortured subjects: pain, truth, and the body in early modern France 
AV  - HV8599.F7 S55 2001eb
U1  - 364.6/7 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Torture
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2010; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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