The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

320 pages paperback 2013

21 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Meet Frantz Schmidt - citizen of Nuremberg, executioner of 394 unfortunates, and torturer, flogger and disfigurer of many hundreds more. Frantz's other distinction was to be a diarist. Drawing on this exceptional and overlooked record that he kept...

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