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Tortured subjects : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: Eng Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.6/7 21
LOC classification:
  • HV8599 .S55
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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 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.
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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.

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