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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Faithful Executioner af Joel F. Harrington, 9780099572664
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780099572664
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0099572664
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2014
Størrelse i cm:
19,8 x 13,1 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2014
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The Faithful Executioner

- Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century
Engelsk
Paperback 2014
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Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation.

Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive?

The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780099572664
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0099572664
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2014
Størrelse i cm:
19,8 x 13,1 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2014
Forfatter(e):
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