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Tortured Subjects

Name: Tortured Subjects
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 04549383
Price: 115.09 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Lisa Silverman
ISBN: 9780226757537

Pain, Truth and the Body in Early Modern France

Lisa Silverman

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04549383

Publishers University of Chicago Press, April 2001

This text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption beca... Full description

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This text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Lisa Silverman looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished. Silverman studies criminal cases, through dossiers and transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, through the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, and through diaries and letters of witnesses at public executions, to finally contend that torture was at the centre of an epistemological crisis that forced the French to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, and freewill and evidence.