The Faithful Executioner : Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century, EPUB eBook

The Faithful Executioner : Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century EPUB

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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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