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Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France |
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Tortured Subjects |
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• Uses actual cases studies to illustrate points
• Connects use of torture to larger social issues / changes
• Helps readers understand why torture would be used |
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• Academic book with more detail than some readers may want |
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This book does an excellent job in exploring the political, social and
religious reasons why torture was used in Europe, and then why it was
later abandoned.
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Explores social and religious reasons for using torture |
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Explores political and ideological reasons for why torture was stopped |
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Uses torture as a way to explain larger social and political changes |
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