Joel Francis Harrington

"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"--

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

The Faithful Executioner

Evan

The line between honest and dishonest was neither fixed nor always obvious.

Perhaps, in a cruel and capricious world, there is hope to be found in one man defying his fate, overcoming universal hostility, and simply persevering amid a series of person tragedies. Meister Frantz clearly thought so. And that, we can agree with him, is an act of faith worthy of remembrance.

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