TY -
BOOK
AU - Silverman, Lisa
TI -
Tortured subjects
pain, truth, and the body in early modern France
PB - Univ. of Chicago Press
SN - 0226757536
SN - 0226757544
KW - Torture History France
KW - Criminal justice, Administration of History France
KW - Torture France History
KW - Criminal justice, Administration of France History
KW - Frankreich
KW - Folter
KW - Geschichte 1600-1788
PY - c 2001
N2 - Literaturverz. S. [233] - 255
N2 - 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
CY - Chicago [u.a.]
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -