Adultère, indices médicaux et recul de la torture à Genève (XVIIe siècle)

This article investigates how the practice of judicial torture was shaped by attitudes to sin, to gender, and to the testimony of medical experts in seventeenth-century Geneva. In 1645, Nicolarde Boeuf was found to have syphilis and was charged with adultery, a crime that, when proven, sometimes res...

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Main Author: Sara Beam
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Mnémosyne
Series:Genre & Histoire
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/2355

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