![]() ![]() But the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal papers is not that of a monster. ![]() Harrington’s The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. Harrington is the biography of a professional executioner based on the man's own journal (available March 19, 2013).īased on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. ![]()
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