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Joel F. Harrington

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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.

Books by Joel F. Harrington

The Faithful Executioner

Step into the world of Meister Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and dispenser of justice.

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