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THE FAITHFUL EXECUTIONER
LIFE AND DEATH, HONOR AND SHAME IN THE TURBULENT SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
| By: |
Joel F. Harrington |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0809049929 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780809049929 |
| Publisher: |
HILL & WANG INC.,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 2013 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. This book uncovers details of Schmidt's medical practice, his efforts at penal reform, and his conflicted relationship with his own craft and the growing sense that it could not be squared with his faith. |
| Synopsis: |
In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty-five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract confessions and put convicted criminals to death. In his years of service, he executed 361 people and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. Is it possible that a man who practiced such cruelty could also be insightful, compassionate, humane - even progressive? In his groundbreaking book, the historian Joel F. Harrington looks for the answer in Schmidt's journal, whose immense significance has been ignored until now. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt's medical practice, his marriage to a woman ten years older than him, his efforts at penal reform, his almost touching obsession with social status, and most of all his conflicted relationship with his own craft and the growing sense that it could not be squared with his faith. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps, frontispiece |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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