The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Memoir most of us live with

most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment

where loyalty to one’s friends

a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime

her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work

the language sensuous and tender

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Memoir most of us live withby Joel F. Harrington 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 remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract