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: 9780809049929

ISBN-10: 0809049929

ISBN-13: 9780809049929

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joel F. Harrington

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The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journalIn the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty-five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract confessions and put convicted criminals to death. In his years of service, he executed 361 people and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. Is it possible that a man who practiced such cruelty could also be insightful, compassionate, humane—even…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Maps


Preface



The Apprentice



The Journeyman



The Master



The Sage



The Healer


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index