Joel F. Harrington

'The Faithful Executioner'

Bog | Engelsk

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his fathers footsteps, Frantz entered the executioners trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attention

'Faithful Executioner'

Bog | Engelsk

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 exec