Tortured subjects [electronic resource] : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: xv, 264 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 364.6/7 21
- HV8599.F7 S55 2001
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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.