Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France Paperback - 2001
by Lisa Silverman
From the rear cover
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 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.
Details
- Title Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
- Author Lisa Silverman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, CHICAGO, IL
- Date 2001-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.02 x 0.61 in (22.86 x 15.29 x 1.55 cm)
-
Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Torture - France - History, Criminal justice, Administration of - France
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009586
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.67
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 12/01/2001, Page 752
More Copies for Sale
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Item Price
-
£8.88£2.40 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects : Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
- Item Price
-
£11.48FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Item Price
-
£16.00£12.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Westerville, Ohio, United States
- Item Price
-
£19.99£4.79 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth and the Body in Early Modern France
by Lisa Silverman
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
£32.09£9.95 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects � Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
£32.39£10.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
£41.69FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Silverman, Lisa
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780226757544 / 0226757544
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
- Item Price
-
£72.24£4.36 shipping to USA