The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg by Joel F Harrington

Studies in Early Modern German History

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

Joel F Harrington

240 pages paperback

2 editions

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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 co...

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