The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780099572664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Joel F. Harrington

Opis

Meet Frantz Schmidt - citizen of Nuremberg, executioner of 394 unfortunates, and torturer, flogger and disfigurer of many hundreds more. Frantz's other distinction was to be a diarist. Drawing on this exceptional and overlooked record that he kept for over 45 years, 'The Faithful Executioner' takes us deep into his world and his thinking. But the picture that emerges is not of a monster. Could a man who routinely practised such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate - even progressive?

Recenzje

"Harrington schildert das Leben dieses außergewöhnlichen Mannes ohne Voyeurismus und Herablassung, vielmehr mit Einfühlungsvermögen und genauer Kenntnis des gesellschaftlichen Hintergrunds." Dpa

O autorze

Following a distinguished academic career teaching and studying the history of Europe, Joel Harrington is currently Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in the Reformation and early modern Germany, with a particular interest in social history. Among his previous publications are A Cloud of Witnesses, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany and The Unwanted Child, for which he won the 2010 Roland Bainton Prize for History.