Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office

The essay will start from the case of early modern Venice and focus on the strategies by which inquisitors observed and tested the bodies of witnesses and defendants. The body becomes a source of evidence that, with the help of physicians and surgeons, undergoes examination: on one hand gesture and...

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Main Author: Federico Barbierato
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2013-07-01
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/5223
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description The essay will start from the case of early modern Venice and focus on the strategies by which inquisitors observed and tested the bodies of witnesses and defendants. The body becomes a source of evidence that, with the help of physicians and surgeons, undergoes examination: on one hand gesture and attitudes are investigated in order to verify discourses, on the other hand recourse to torture, albeit limited, puts into play the body, which becomes the space where truth is measured.
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spelling doaj-art-bdd7554af46a4aeb8e7a6bafe1e7d68c2024-12-09T15:44:34ZfraCentre de Recherches HistoriquesL'Atelier du CRH1760-79142013-07-011110.4000/acrh.5223Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-OfficeFederico BarbieratoThe essay will start from the case of early modern Venice and focus on the strategies by which inquisitors observed and tested the bodies of witnesses and defendants. The body becomes a source of evidence that, with the help of physicians and surgeons, undergoes examination: on one hand gesture and attitudes are investigated in order to verify discourses, on the other hand recourse to torture, albeit limited, puts into play the body, which becomes the space where truth is measured.https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/5223Roman InquisitionVenetian Inquisitiontorturebodieshistory of medicine
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Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office
L'Atelier du CRH
Roman Inquisition
Venetian Inquisition
torture
bodies
history of medicine
title Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office
title_full Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office
title_fullStr Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office
title_full_unstemmed Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office
title_short Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office
title_sort les corps comme preuve medecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du saint office
topic Roman Inquisition
Venetian Inquisition
torture
bodies
history of medicine
url https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/5223
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