The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg

by Franz Schmidt

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