The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington
- The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Joel F. Harrington
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781250043610
- Publisher: Picador
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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Overview
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL. In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of ...