Author: Charles Frederick KroehPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Living Method for Learning how to Think in French
Author: Charles Frederick KroehPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
Civil Code of the State of Louisiana
Author: LouisianaA New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages
Author: Nicolas Gouin DufiefPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A Dictionary of Idioms
Author: William A. BellengerPublisher: London : Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The History of the City of Ogdensburg
Author: Philias S. GarandPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Descriptions of Bench Marks in the United States
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
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Category : Bench-marks
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
French extracts for London matriculation, by W. Dodds and C. Delhavé
Author: William DoddsTortured Subjects
Author: Lisa SilvermanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226757537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Author: Samuel I Butler