Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Faithful ExecutionerCondition: NewISBN-10: 1250043611EAN: 9781250043610ISBN: 9781250043610Publisher: Picador USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/31/2013Description: 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 Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate - even progressive?In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt's journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt's life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes of the day; the medical practice that he felt was his true calling; and his lifelong struggle to reconcile his craft with his religious faith.In this groundbreaking and intimate portrait, Harrington shows us that our thinking about justice and punishment, and our sense of our own humanity, are not so remote from the world of The Faithful Executioner.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 208mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 300gAuthor: Joel F. HarringtonGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Biography, Law & Politics, HistoryRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Faithful Executioner
Title: The Faithful Executioner
ISBN-10: 1250043611
EAN: 9781250043610
ISBN: 9781250043610
Release Date: 12/31/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Faithful Executioner : Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Europe / Germany, Modern / 16th Century, General, Penology, Criminal Procedure, Historical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: Joel F. Harrington
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
