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100 1  Harrington, Joel F.|q(Joel Francis),|eauthor. 
245 14 The faithful executioner :|blife and death in the 
       sixteenth century|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cJoel F.
       Harrington. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bNovel Audio,|c2017. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
511 1  Read by Jame Gillies. 
520    Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a 
       Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. 
       Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside
       the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of 
       Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional 
       executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and 
       tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. But 
       the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal 
       papers is not that of a monster. Could a man who routinely
       practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate-
       even progressive? In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington 
       vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, 
       from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his 
       executioner father to the adult Meister Frantz's juggling 
       of familial duties with his work in the torture chamber 
       and at the scaffold. With him we encounter brutal 
       highwaymen, charming swindlers, and tragic unwed mothers 
       accused of infanticide, as well as patrician senators, 
       godly chaplains, and corrupt prison guards. Harrington 
       teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt's 
       journal, uncovering a touching tale of inherited shame and
       attempted redemption for the social pariah and his 
       children. The Faithful Executioner offers not just the 
       compelling firsthand perspective of a professional 
       torturer and killer, but testimony of one man's lifelong 
       struggle to reconcile his bloody craft with his deep 
       religious faith. The biography of an ordinary man 
       struggling for his soul, this groundbreaking book also 
       offers an unparalleled panoramic view of Europe on the 
       cusp of modernity, a society riven by violent conflict at 
       all levels and encumbered by paranoia, superstition, and 
       abuses of power. Thanks to an extraordinary historical 
       source and its gifted interpreter, we recognize far more 
       of ourselves than we might have expected in this intimate 
       portrait of a professional killer from a faraway world. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
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. 
700 1  Gillies, Jame. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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