Tortured subjects (Record no. 50176)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20180918104357.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780226757544 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 |
| Bill Number | ;112672 |
| Bill Date | ;04/09/2018 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 364.67 SIL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lisa Silverman |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tortured subjects |
| Remainder of title | : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | /Lisa Silverman |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Chicago |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : University of Chicago Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | , 2001. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 264 pages |
| Dimensions | ;24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 2272 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Contents note | 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 --<br/>pt. 2. Pain, truth, and the body. "The executioner 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations condu. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social Sciences |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Criminology |
| Non-focus term | Social problems & social services |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lisa Silverman |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 18/09/2018 | 2272.00 | 364.67 SIL | 25681 | 19/09/2023 | 18/09/2018 | Books |
