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100 1  Harrington, Joel F.|q(Joel Francis) 
245 14 The faithful executioner :|blife and death, honor and 
       shame in the turbulent sixteenth century /|cJoel F. 
       Harrington. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2013. 
300    xxvi, 283 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-264) and 
       index. 
505 0  Apprentice -- Journeyman -- Master -- Sage -- Healer -- 
       Epilogue. 
520    "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 he, 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 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 10 Schmidt, Franz,|d1554-1634. 
650  0 Executions and executioners|zGermany|zNuremberg
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Criminal procedure|zGermany|zNuremberg|xHistory. 
650  0 Crime|zGermany|zNuremberg|xHistory. 
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