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Kollektivintentionalität und Kollektivkommunikation im Mittelalter
Das Judenpogrom und der Einzug der Pest in Straßburg im Jahr 1349
Abstract The paper applies the concepts of collective intentionality and collective communication to the historical events in Strasbourg in 1349, when the Jews were persecuted and killed before the plague arrived. Contents: 1. Sketch of the events, 2. collective intentionality and collective communication: self-empowerment of the guilds, 3. split discourse and collective communication, 4. boundaries of individual knowledge and forms of authorizing knowledge in the Middle Ages, 5. well poisoning and scapegoating, 6. affective legal thinking: liability is prior to guilt, 7. directed public: denunciation, 8. representing penance (flagellants), 9. individual ethics: Rulman Merswin on the pogrom at Strasbourg in his ‘Neunfelsenbuch’.
Keywords collective intentionality; collective communication; individual ethics; plague; progrom
