The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
A Scholarly book that is quite interested in examining society, crim and punishment of 16th century Germany through the lens of a dishonored class- an executioner.
Also the only book where I've read that someone used a dog as a murder weapon. Let me be clear here, the person did not sick a dog on someone and that killed them. The murder weapon... was the dog. Hilariously enough this is very important for the focus of the text as this comes back to haunt his family because his family is tainted with 'death' and ends up condemning him to a life of being in the executioners guild.
The book is full of black humor sorts of anecdotes too. And uh.. terrible criminals and crimes, so you know.. be prepared for that, but for a factual book, quite good.
It was Mr. Jones, outside the farm house, with the dog.
If you want to feel bad and want to kill yourself, Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence tugs at the heartstrings really, really badly. Such a downer of a book, but also entrancing in it's own, horrifying way.
What do the people of Florence, Italy do with the most unwanted sorts of people; Orphan girls? This book examines the 'future' that these young women have to look forward to, and ultimately examines how just hopelessly fucked these poor girls were. And these girls were the lucky ones that were able to get accepted into an orphanage.
The amazon review does have a few misleading lines in it, especially at the end of the second paragraph, but the worst part is, it's more sort of accurate in a way-oh man, this is so depressing.
But if you know a red pill, throw them this text.
