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The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the Turbulent sixteenth century

"A work of nonfiction that explores the thoughts and experiences of one early modern executioner, Nuremberg's Frantz Schmidt (1555-1634), through his own words - a rare personal journal, in which he recorded and described all the executions and corporal punishments he administered between 1573 and his retirement in 1617"--

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  • "Cong yi wei zhi ye xing xing zhe de nei xin shi jie, tan suo luan shi xiong nian de sheng yu si"
  • "Cong yi wei zhi ye xing xing zhe de nei xin shi jie,tan suo luan shi xiong nian de sheng yu si"
  • "從一位職業行刑者的內心世界, 探索亂世凶年的生與死"
  • "從一位職業行刑者的內心世界,探索亂世凶年的生與死"

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  • ""A work of nonfiction that explores the thoughts and experiences of one early modern executioner, Nuremberg's Frantz Schmidt (1555-1634), through his own words - a rare personal journal, in which he recorded and described all the executions and corporal punishments he administered between 1573 and his retirement in 1617"--"@en
  • ""A work of nonfiction that explores the thoughts and experiences of one early modern executioner, Nuremberg's Frantz Schmidt (1555-1634), through his own words - a rare personal journal, in which he recorded and described all the executions and corporal punishments he administered between 1573 and his retirement in 1617"--"
  • ""The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal 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. A biography of an ordinary man struggling for his soul, The Faithful Executioner is also an unparalleled portrait of Europe on the cusp of modernity, yet riven by conflict and encumbered by paranoia, superstition, and abuses of power. In his intimate portrait of a Nuremberg executioner, Harrington also sheds light on our own fraught historical moment"--"@en
  • ""The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal 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. A biography of an ordinary man struggling for his soul, The Faithful Executioner is also an unparalleled portrait of Europe on the cusp of modernity, yet riven by conflict and encumbered by paranoia, superstition, and abuses of power. In his intimate portrait of a Nuremberg executioner, Harrington also sheds light on our own fraught historical moment"--"

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  • "忠實的劊子手 : 從一位職業行刑者的內心世界,探索亂世凶年的生與死"
  • "Zhong shi de kai zi shou : cong yi wei zhi ye xing xing zhe de nei xin shi jie, tan suo luan shi xiong nian de sheng yu si"
  • "The faithful executioner life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent Sixteenth century"
  • "The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the Turbulent sixteenth century"@en
  • "The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent Sixteenth century"
  • "忠實的劊子手 : 從一位職業行刑者的內心世界, 探索亂世凶年的生與死"
  • "The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent Sixteenth Century"
  • "The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century"
  • "The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century"@en
  • "Faithful executioner : Life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century"
  • "Zhong shi de gui zi shou : cong yi wei zhi ye xing xing zhe de nei xin shi jie,tan suo luan shi xiong nian de sheng yu si"

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