The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century. Joel F. Harrington

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ISBN: 9781250043610 | 320 pages | 8 Mb

• The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
• Joel F. Harrington
• Page: 320
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781250043610
• Publisher: Picador

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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 the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of ...

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