Vom Scharfrichteramt ins Zürcher Bürgertum: Die Familie Volmar-Steinfels und der Schweizer Strafvollzug
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Vom Scharfrichteramt ins Zürcher Bürgertum: Die Familie Volmar-Steinfels und der Schweizer Strafvollzug

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Vom Scharfrichteramt ins Zürcher Bürgertum: Die Familie Volmar-Steinfels und der Schweizer StrafvollzugDer Beruf des Scharfrichters entstand im Sptmittelalter und war bis ins 19. Jahrhundert ein wichtiges Amt im Dienst der Regierung. Der Scharfrichter war nicht nur fr Hinrichtungen, sondern auch fr Krperstrafen und Folter zustndig. Gewhnlich hatte er auch das Abdeckerwesen unter sich; zudem bettigte er sich oft als Arzt. Rechtlich und sozial bildeten die Scharfrichter eine isolierte Kaste, aus der auszubrechen schwierig war. Die Autoren beschreiben auf

Der Beruf des Scharfrichters entstand im Spätmittelalter und war bis ins 19. Jahrhundert ein wichtiges Amt im Dienst der Regierung. Der Scharfrichter war nicht nur für Hinrichtungen, sondern auch für Körperstrafen und Folter zuständig. Gewöhnlich hatte er auch das Abdeckerwesen unter sich; zudem betätigte er sich oft als Arzt. Rechtlich und sozial bildeten die Scharfrichter eine isolierte Kaste, aus der auszubrechen schwierig war. Die Autoren beschreiben auf der Basis umfangreicher genealogischer Forschungen den Beruf des Scharfrichters und geben erstmals einen Überblick über das schweizerische Scharfrichterwesen und die dieses Amt ausübenden Dynastien. Sie schildern das Alltagswerk und die Lebensumstände dieses Berufsstandes, wobei Zürich den Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung bildet. Seit dem 16. Jahrhundert führte die gesellschaftliche und rechtliche Isola­tion zur Bildung von Scharfrichterdynastien – in Zürich waren dies zunächst das Geschlecht der Grossholz, dann das der Volmar, die jeweils Strategien ent­wickelten, um für ihre Nachkommen die Stellung zu erhalten und auszubauen. Einem Zweig der Familie Volmar gelang es, die Scharfrichterkaste zu verlassen und unter dem Namen «Steinfels» – trotz zahlreicher Rück­schläge – Teil des Zürcher Bürgertums zu werden. Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts war die soziale Stellung der Familie gesichert und damit die Basis für den Aufstieg im Industriezeitalter gelegt.

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This is an amazing book! The author takes the reader through several works of black literature, expounding on how each work shows us deep things about theology and faith.
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This book is a great read. I’m not even sure how to encapsulate my thoughts on it, but let me say the chapter, “Jesus,” on the poetry of Countee Cullen is brilliant and a masterclass on discipleship, suffering, identity, projecting onto Jesus. This one chapter could literally be a course in Christian discipleship handling multiple aspects of the life of faith. I feel like I’m not doing the chapter, the book, or Claude Atcho justice here, but I deeply recommend this book and urge readers to really sit with the Cullen chapter and all its implications. What a gift Claude Atcho has given us here!
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Have you ever finished a book so heavy with truth and beauty and goodness that you don’t know how to sum it up? That’s where I am upon completing Claude Atcho’s Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just. I’m the sort who marks up books with notes, underlining, and asterisks. Pages with ideas I want to return to get a folded corner. For this book? More pages are folded than not and a flip through the book reveals copious amounts of fuchsia markings. Full disclosure: Claude is a writer friend; we’ve chatted about faith, books, work, writing, and podcasting. I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of his book, knowing it would be fantastic. You might think I was biased in that assumption, considering our previous connection, considering I received an ARC from Brazos Press. What I found from the first pages was even more than expected: my friend as pastor, shepherd, prophet, counselor, guide. Claude features 10 key creative African American works to cast a vision for human flourishing rooted in the power and love of God found in Jesus Christ. Just listen to this moving excerpt: “Healing is found in the constant individual and communal turn toward the tender mercies of God, who calls us to a theological remembrance: to locate our history in his, to make sense of our memory in his memory, to process our wounds in his wounds” (126). This book is beautifully written, theologically robust, and desperately needed. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is stunning.
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