Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/KF8wYZ Tortured Subjects Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France By: Lisa Silverman Publisher: University of Chicago Press Print ISBN: 9780226757537, 0226757536 eText ISBN: 9780226757520, 0226757528 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2001 Format: PDF Available from $ 33.00 USD SKU 9780226757520 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. Additional ISBNs 9780226757544, 9780226757537, 0226757544, 0226757536, 9780226757544, 0226757544
