Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 2122-2130 ~ ~ ~ УДК 101 The Idea of World Domination in the Public Consciousness in Europe in the Early and Developed Middle Ages Andrei V. Zberovskii and Marina N. Kriuk* Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev 89 Ady Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia Received 12.04.2016, received in revised form 22.06.2016, accepted 15.07.2016 The article explores a public thought and public consciousness in the early and developed Middle Ages in Europe. <...> It reveals the presence of the idea of world domination in the public mind of medieval Europe. <...> The article also discusses the specificity of the idea of world hegemony in the public consciousness in the studied period. <...> It explains the change of the idea of world domination in comparison to the previous period (Ancient World). <...> There are numerous examples of people pretending to the world domination. <...> The author used historical sources, as well as works of the famous Russian and foreign researchers. <...> Keywords: Early and developed Middle Ages, medieval Europe, world domination, world empire, world hegemony, world sovereignty, public thought, public consciousness, Crusades, Attila, Charlemagne, Otto I, Otto II, Otto III, Gregory VII, Henry II, Frederick I, Frederick II, Richard the Lionheart, Philip II. <...> Introduction The ideas that originated in ancient times continue to develop in the Middle Ages, has a strong impact on people’s minds, form a certain course of actions of the rulers and their subjects. <...> In ancient times, a number of countries, including China (Kriuk, 2016), India (Kriuk, 2015), Egypt and the countries of Mesopotamia (Kriuk, 2014) carried out numerous attempts to establish global hegemony. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: mari.kryuk@yandex.ru – 2122 – path of its development on the world stage, while Rome (Kriuk, 2015) has won many victories over the nations of the Ancient world, is trying to turn the idea of world domination into reality, to become the ruler of all nations. <...> By the beginning of the Middle Ages the Western Roman empire will fall and the palm of victory will go into the hands of other countries. <...> And the European states will be these countries that, in practice, based <...>