Verlag: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0099572664 ISBN 13: 9780099572664
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his fathers footsteps, Frantz entered the executioners 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 Frantzs 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: London: The Bodley Head, 2013
Anbieter: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardback. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 9½" x 6¼" (1.1 kg); (xxvi) 285pp; Index; Includes: Black & white drawings; Frontispiece; ISBN: 978-1-8479-2212-0 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201095|| Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper nicked slightly at the head of the spine. The contents lightly toned with age.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0099572664 ISBN 13: 9780099572664
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unter Mördern, Dieben, Dirnen: Schuld und Sühne in der frühen NeuzeitFrantz Schmidt tötete fast 400 Menschen, unzählige weitere hat er gefoltert oder verstümmelt. Und doch war er am Ende seines Lebens ein angesehener Mann. Ungewöhnlich ist nicht nur der Lebensweg des Meister Frantz, der im 16. Jahrhundert in Nürnberg als Henker arbeitete, sondern auch, dass er Tagebuch schrieb. Der Historiker Joel Harrington hat dieses einmalige Zeugnis nun erstmals umfassend ausgewertet und gibt in seinem packenden Buch seltene Einblicke in das Leben, Denken und Fühlen der Menschen am Beginn der Neuzeit.Das Handwerk des Tötens hatte Frantz Schmidt von seinem Vater gelernt, doch sein Leben lang strebte er danach, dem unehrenhaften Stand des Henkers zu entfliehen. Als Scharfrichter in Nürnberg waren es vor allem die Kriminellen, die Außenseiter und Pechvögel, mit denen er in Kontakt kam, der Zugang zur ehrbaren Gesellschaft blieb ihm lange verwehrt. Über seine grausame Arbeit hat Meister Frantz über 45 Jahre lang Buch geführt und der Nachwelt damit eine höchst ungewöhnliche Quelle hinterlassen. Basierend auf dem Tagebuch und anhand umfangreicher Forschung gelingt es Joel Harrington meisterhaft, das Leben des Frantz Schmidt in all seinen Facetten und Widersprüchen zu schildern. Er erzählt damit nicht nur eine faszinierende Lebensgeschichte, sondern erschließt uns zugleich eine Epoche, in der die Welt sich zur Moderne wandelt.
Verlag: Picador USA Dez 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1250043611 ISBN 13: 9781250043610
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate-even progressive In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt's journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt's life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes of the day; the medical practice that he felt was his true calling; and his lifelong struggle to reconcile his craft with his religious faith.In this groundbreaking and intimate portrait, Harrington shows us that our thinking about justice and punishment, and our sense of our own humanity, are not so remote from the world of The Faithful Executioner.
Verlag: PICADOR, 2013
ISBN 10: 1250043611 ISBN 13: 9781250043610
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.