The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Memoir he realizes that their story

he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page

where loyalty to one’s friends

the language sensuous and tender

--Kim Hughes

While pushing her child’s stroller around Hamilton

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Memoir he realizes that their storyby 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