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The Faithful Executioner : Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century

by Joel F. Harrington

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0099572664
ISBN-13 9780099572664
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 1st, 2014
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 278 grams
Dimensions 19.80 x 13.10 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification: European history British & Irish history Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive?The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse;

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation.

Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive?

The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.

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