An edition of Tortured subjects
(2001)
Tortured subjects
pain, truth, and the body in early modern France
by Lisa Silverman
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Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
2014, University of Chicago Press
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Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
2010, University of Chicago Press
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Tortured subjects: pain, truth, and the body in early modern France
2001, University of Chicago Press
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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