Tortured subjects pain, truth, and the body in early modern France /

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Main Author: Silverman, Lisa
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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245 1 0 |a Tortured subjects  |h [electronic resource] :  |b pain, truth, and the body in early modern France /  |c Lisa Silverman. 
260 |a Chicago :  |b University of Chicago Press,  |c 2001. 
300 |a xv, 264 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction.  |b Palo Alto, Calif. :  |c ebrary,  |d 2013.  |n Available via World Wide Web.  |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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