The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

365 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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