The Faithful Executioner. Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- 283 pages
- 10 hours of reading
"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