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

by Joel F. Harrington

Book Overview

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"