CARNIVAL POLITICAL CULTURE: A PICNIC ON THE SIDELINES OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Carnival political culture created many caricatured medieval chimeras, consisting of ridiculous politicians, deranged preachers, unlucky and false clergy, odious personalities, artificial states, manic sects, etc., which may have had a vivid form but at the same time possessed completely incomprehensible content. The behavior of many political officials of that time did not correspond to their officially established or actually established norms in this society, stereotypes of behavior patterns. Deviation became the main feature of the carnival political culture. Deviation gave rise to absurdities, too much to be ignored. Absurdities arose at the dynastic level, and in the ruptures of cultural, ethnic and confessional values, and in popular revolts. What a modern man perceives as absurdity, a man of the Middle Ages could not pay any attention to it at all. And vice versa - he could be surprised by something that, in principle, can be completely incomprehensible to us. Religious fanaticism and obscurantism predetermined the Gothic worldview of that era, filled with all kinds of fables, gargoyles and chimeras. And all this was at the same time the context of the political carnival, and at the same time filled it, becoming those invisible threads by which the puppeteers pulled their puppets. Much in the carnival political culture was associated with the debauchery and debauchery of the top officials of states, churches (sects), and various kinds of professional corporations. This work is devoted to the analysis of these anomalies.