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  • The Executioner's Journal

    Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg

    by Frantz Schmidt ...
    Translated by Joel F. Harrington ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt’s hands, was the story of Joel Harrington’s much-discussed book The Faithful Executioner. The foundation of that ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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  • Crossing Hitler:The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand

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  • A Hangman's Diary

    The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573?1617

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  • The Faithful Executioner

    Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

    by Joel F. Harrington ...
    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 executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured ... Read more

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