Ich bin ganz gut dabei meinen Bücherstapel vom Jahresanfang "abzutragen" - was vielleicht auch daran liegt, dass der Stapel nicht so hoch ist, dass sich decision fatigue einstellen könnte - aber dieses Buch ist definitiv das ... sagen wir ungewöhnlichste? Es kam aus demselben Insta-Reel, wie die Scorpion-Bombs, was vielleicht einen Trend begründed. ;-)
Bevor wir jetzt aber zu meinen überschaubaren Eindrücken kommen, worum geht es in The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century von Joel F. Harrington?
Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s 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 Frantz’s 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.
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