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Silverman, Lisa.

Tortured subjects : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001. - xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references 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 executioner 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.

ISBN: 0226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 00009586

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA1-39009

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Torture--History.--France
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--France
Torture--history--France.
Criminal Law--history--France.
Torture--France--18e siècle.
Droit pénal--France--18e siècle.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Torture.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: HV8599 / .S55

Dewey Class. No.: 364.6/7