The flip side of coin, or the erotic underground of medieval culture

Authors

  • Marina A. Mojeiko Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, 17 Rabkorawskaja Street, Minsk 220007, Belarus

Keywords:

sexuality, axiological discredit, interpretational discredit, ousting from the zone of legitimacy, torn consciousness, cultural underground, forms of adaptation of sexuality, deformation of interpretations, inadequate forms of manifestation

Abstract

The spiritual life of the Middle Ages is extremely polymorphic and by no means reduces to official Christian orthodoxy. In particular, the cultural setting that divides earthly love and celestial love at different poles of the value scale, varies in Medial culture across all possible registers, giving rise to a whole gamut of new meanings and contradictions in its various layers. The special voice sounds in medieval culture – the voice of a kind of erotic underground which is ideologically suppressed by orthodoxy and driven out of the area of cultural legitimacy, but has not been stopped.

Author Biography

  • Marina A. Mojeiko, Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, 17 Rabkorawskaja Street, Minsk 220007, Belarus

    doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; head of the department of philosophy and methodology of humanities, faculty of culturology and sociocultural activities

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Published

2019-03-12

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No. 4 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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Mojeiko, M.A. 2019. The flip side of coin, or the erotic underground of medieval culture. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 4 (Mar. 2019), 162–167.