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Title	Involuntary confessions of the flesh in early modern France / Nora Martin Peterson.
Author	Peterson, Nora Martin, author
Publisher	Newark, [Delaware] : University of Delaware Press, 2016

Status	Loan Type	Location	Shelf-mark
In Library	Standard	Library Level 9 Annexe	French C245 PET

Description	xxvi, 157 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN	9781611496253 hardback
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Confession manuals and involuntary confessions of the flesh -- Confessing the body's truths in the Heptaméron -- Torture and the limits of the body: extracting truth from legal documents -- Bending the truth in Montaigne -- Sprezzatura in French courtly handbooks -- Competing codes and involuntary confessions in the Princesse de Clèves bibliography.
Series	Early modern exchange.
Library Class	French C245
Subject	French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
	French prose literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
	Human body in literature.
	Mind and body in literature.

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