The Faithful Executioner读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 320页 | 2020 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBP 18.99 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-05-21 … | 57 |
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 confessions and put convicted criminals to death. In his years of service, he executed 361 people and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. Is it possible that a man who practiced such cruelty could also be insightful, compassionate, humane - even progressive? In his groundbreaking book, the historian Joel F. Harrington looks for the answer in Schmidt's journal, whose immense significance has been ignored until now. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt's medical practice, his marriage to a woman ten years older than him, his efforts at penal reform, his almost touching obsession with social status, and most of all his conflicted relationship with his own craft and the growing sense that it could not be squared with his faith.
作者简介[美]乔尔·哈林顿（Joel F. Harrington）
美国范德堡大学（Vanderbilt University）历史学教授，著作《没有人要的孩子》曾获得2010历史类罗兰•班顿奖。另著有《宗教改革时代日耳曼婚姻与社会的重整》（Reordering Marria ge and Society in Reformation Germany）和《见证人群像：西方基督教历史文选》（A cloud of Witnesses: Readings in the History of Western Christianity）。目前与妻儿居于美国田纳西州纳什维尔市。
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