The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century : New Excerpt
By Joel F. Harrington
March 16, 2013The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington is the biography of a professional executioner based on the man's own journal (available March 19, 2013). Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington’s The…