- Criminal procedure, Executions and executioners, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, Crime
"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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Joel F. Harrington
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 318
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Bodley Head, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780809049936
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