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

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 | #367505 in Books |  2013-12-31 |  2013-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.17 x.84 x5.50l,.60 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.| Like stepping back into another, darker, time. Excellent book.|By D. Graves|Some books are engrossing: you don't want to stop reading. This is as engrossing a book as you'll ever read - and it's non-fiction.

Think of it: the diary of an executioner of the late 1500s to early 1600s - a time when thousands were brutally tortured and put to death by barbaric means - h|From Booklist|Based on the journal of Frantz Schmidt, a Nuremburg executioner who died in the early seventeenth century, this endlessly fascinating book explores not just the life of a professional killer but also

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 ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century   |  Joel F. Harrington. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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