- J.R. Ward
By: Joel F. Harrington
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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 compe
