The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

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 rema…

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