Tortured Subjects Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France

Name: Tortured Subjects Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
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ISBN: 9780226757544

ISBN-10: 0226757544

ISBN-13: 9780226757544

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lisa Silverman

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


A Note on Foreign Terms


Introduction



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



Pain, Truth, and the Body



"The executioner of his own life": Lay Piety and the Valorization of Pain



"The tortu'd patient": Pain, Surgery, and Suffering



". . . as if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch": Pain as Politics Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index