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Date
2013
Location
New York,
New York (State)
United States
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xxvi, 283 p.
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 333656
Folger call number: HV8551 .H374 2013
Folger holdings ID: 485307
Folger call number: HV8551 .H374 2013
Folger holdings ID: 485307
Summary
"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"--
Notes
Edition
1st ed
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-264) and index
Contents
Apprentice -- Journeyman -- Master -- Sage -- Healer -- Epilogue
Also known as
Extended title: The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent Sixteenth Century / Joel F. Harrington
Subjects
Related names
author: Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis)
subject: Schmidt, Franz, 1554-1634
subject: Schmidt, Franz, 1554-1634