Tortured subjects
Silverman, Lisa.
Tortured subjects pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / [electronic resource] : Lisa Silverman. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001. - xv, 264 p. : ill.
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,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Torture--History.--France
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--France
Electronic books.
HV8599.F7 / S55 2001eb
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Tortured subjects pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / [electronic resource] : Lisa Silverman. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001. - xv, 264 p. : ill.
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,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Torture--History.--France
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--France
Electronic books.
HV8599.F7 / S55 2001eb
364.6/7