Tortured subjects pain, truth, and the body in early modern France /
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| פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2001.
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| גישה מקוונת: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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תוכן הענינים:
- 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.