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

by Joel F. Harrington

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1250043611

ISBN13:9781250043610

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:Picador USA

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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16th Century Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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