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Tortured subjects pain, truth, and the body in early modern France
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Tortured subjects [electronic resource] : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman.
ISBN
0226757536 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226757537
9780226757520 (e-book)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Physical Description
xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index.
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.
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