The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg
(Part of the Studies in Early Modern German History Series)
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During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt's hands, was the story of Joel Harrington's much-discussed book The Faithful Executioner. The foundation of that celebrated work was Schmidt's own journal--notable...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813938694
ISBN13:9780813938691
Release Date:September 2016
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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