01953nam a22002297a 4500 20180918104357.0 180918b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780226757544 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 ;112672 ;04/09/2018 364.67 SIL Lisa Silverman Tortured subjects : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France /Lisa Silverman Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2001. xv, 264 pages ;24 cm. 2272 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 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. 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. Social Sciences Criminology Social problems & social services Lisa Silverman BOOK 50176 50176 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2018-09-18 2272.00 0 364.67 SIL 25681 2023-09-19 00:00:00 2018-09-18 BOOK