Faithful Executioner Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Name: Faithful Executioner Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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ISBN: 9781250043610

ISBN-10: 1250043611

ISBN-13: 9781250043610

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Authors: Joel F. Harrington

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Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harringtons "The Faithful Executioner" takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. But the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal papers is not that of a monster. Could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate--even progressive? In "The Faithful Executioner," Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 12/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.17" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English