LEADER 04206nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910784947803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-65989-8 010 $a9786612659898 010 $a0-226-75752-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226757520 035 $a(CKB)2670000000029718 035 $a(EBL)547715 035 $a(OCoLC)646068306 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000429869 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11323217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429869 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10451773 035 $a(PQKB)10072900 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC547715 035 $a(DE-B1597)524034 035 $a(OCoLC)781303290 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226757520 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL547715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10397743 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL265989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038266 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038266 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000029718 100 $a20000517d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTortured subjects$b[electronic resource] $epain, truth, and the body in early modern France /$fLisa Silverman 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-75753-6 311 $a0-226-75754-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aAt 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 conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice. 606 $aTorture$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$zFrance$xHistory 610 $aearly modern, time period, era, france, french, europe, european, body, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, suffering, pain, physical, redemption, religion, trauma, theory, theoretical, true story, torture, 1600s, 1700s, 18th century, illegal, crime, criminal, transcript, interrogation, physician, surgeon, witness, execution, apologist, abolitionist, activist. 615 0$aTorture$xHistory. 615 0$aCriminal justice, Administration of$xHistory. 676 $a364.6/7 700 $aSilverman$b Lisa$01110242 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784947803321 996 $aTortured subjects$93759176 997 $aUNINA