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The Faithful Executioner (Paperback)
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The Faithful Executioner (Paperback)
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List price R559
Loot Price R463
Discovery Miles 4 630
You Save R96 (17%)
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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS
WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.
In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington
stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a
sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the
394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more
he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years
in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that
gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who
practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate--even
progressive?
In "The Faithful Executioner," Harrington teases out the hidden
meanings and drama of Schmidt's journal. Deemed an official
outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and
free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington
uncovers details of Schmidt's life and work: the shocking, but
often familiar, crimes of the day; the medical practice that he
felt was his true calling; and his lifelong struggle to reconcile
his craft with his religious faith.
In this groundbreaking and intimate portrait, Harrington shows us
that our thinking about justice and punishment, and our sense of
our own humanity, are not so remote from the world of "The Faithful
Executioner."
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