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100	1		_aHarrington, Joel F. _q(Joel Francis) _93059
245	1	4	_aThe faithful executioner : _blife and death, honor and shame in the turbulent Sixteenth Century / _cJoel F. Harrington.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2013.
300			_axxvi, 283 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-264) and index.
520			_a"The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty-five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract confessions and put convicted criminals to death. In his years of service, he executed 361 people and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. Is it possible that a man who practiced such cruelty could also be insightful, compassionate, humane--even progressive? In his groundbreaking book, the historian Joel F. Harrington looks for the answer in Schmidt's journal, whose immense significance has been ignored until now. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt's medical practice, his marriage to a woman ten years older than him, his efforts at penal reform, his almost touching obsession with social status, and most of all his conflicted relationship with his own craft and the growing sense that it could not be squared with his faith. A biography of an ordinary man struggling for his soul, The Faithful Executioner is also an unparalleled portrait of Europe on the cusp of modernity, yet riven by conflict and encumbered by paranoia, superstition, and abuses of power. In his intimate portrait of a Nuremberg executioner, Harrington also sheds light on our own fraught historical moment"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A work of nonfiction that explores the thoughts and experiences of one early modern executioner, Nuremberg's Frantz Schmidt (1555-1634), through his own words - a rare personal journal, in which he recorded and described all the executions and corporal punishments he administered between 1573 and his retirement in 1617"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aSchmidt, Franz, _d-1634. _9150411
650		0	_aExecutions and executioners _zGermany _zNuremberg _vBiography. _9150412
650		0	_aCriminal procedure _zGermany _zNuremberg _xHistory. _9150413
650		0	_aCrime _zGermany _zNuremberg _xHistory. _9150415
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 16th Century. _2bisacsh _9150417
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / Germany. _2bisacsh _9150419
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