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

List of IllustrationsPrefaceA Note on Foreign TermsIntroductionPart One: An Epistemology of Pain1. Murder in the rue Noue: The Trials of Jean Bourdil and the Legal System of Old Regime France2. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . .": Judges, Legal Manuals, and the Theory of Torture3. "To know the truth from his mouth": The Practice of Torture in the Parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788Part Two: Pain, Truth, and the Body4. "The executioner of his own life": Lay Piety and the Valorization of Pain5. "The tortu'd patient": Pain, Surgery, and Suffering6. ." . . as if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch": Pain as PoliticsEpilogueAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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This text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Using documents from criminal cases, it looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788.

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• Authors: Lisa Silverman
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2001
• EAN: 9780226757544
• ISBN: 978-0-226-75754-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 154 mm x 49 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories