The Faithful Executioner : Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)

from JBD1

Quite a good biographical microhistory based around the remarkable journal of a Nuremberg executioner. Harrington uses Frantz Schmidt's lengthy account of his life and of the executions he carried out over many years to explore the crimes and punishments of sixteenth-century Nuremberg (and surrou...

from tlawrence36

The book seemed a little slow at times, but gives you a good idea of how crime was viewed and dealt with in the era (and there was a lot of it, no different than today). If you're looking for the gory details of executions, this isn't the book for you. It focuses on Meister Frantz's attempt to re...

from Sullywriter

A fascinating, remarkably insightful, and completely engrossing portrait of a 16th century professional executioner largely based upon his own journal kept during his 40-year career in southern Germany. Equally enlightening and absorbing are the times and place this man lived which are painstakin...

from Sullywriter

A fascinating, remarkably insightful, and completely engrossing portrait of a 16th century professional executioner largely based upon his own journal kept during his 40-year career in southern Germany. Equally enlightening and absorbing are the times and place this man lived which are painstakin...