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Following a distinguished academic career teaching and studying the history of Europe, Joel Harrington is currently Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in the Reformation and early modern Germany, with a particular interest in social history. Among his previous publications are A Cloud of Witnesses, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany and The Unwanted Child, for which he won the 2010 Roland Bainton Prize for History.
A surprisingly moving story of brutality and redemption -- Dan Jones Telegraph Who can imagine how an executioner feels about his trade? Joel F. Harrington has written a considered and fascinating book which helps us hear the voice of one such man, a professional torturer (and healer) who, astonishingly, kept a diary. Exploring both sixteenth-century Nuremberg and the world about the city, he recreates the social context for the flamboyant displays of cruelty which later centuries find so hard to comprehend. Both the executioner and his victims are rescued from our condescension, and restored to their own moral universe: which is not so far from ours as we like to suppose. -- Hilary Mantel This is a sympathetic, intelligent and surprisingly tender book -- Dan Jones The Times Harrington does an excellent job at recreating the thoughts and fears of a man whose job is one of the most loathed and caricatured -- Ben Wilson Daily Telegraph A vivid window on a fascinating age -- Michael Kerrigan Scotsman
