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The Faithful Executioner (2013)

The Faithful Executioner (2013)

Joel F. Harrington

Published: 2013, March 19
Authors: Joel F. Harrington
Publishers: Macmillan
Pages: 317
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"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"-- Provided by publisher