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The article relates the author's view on the modern conception of the visual world in Middle Ages period based on the architecture on the Hollywood films. He cited the presumption of Vivian Sobchack, Associate Dean at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), about the relationship between historical facts and historical fiction. He set as an example the film "The Lord of the Rings" which showed the microhistorical evidence of the past to made his conception more reliable.

The article discusses the historical study of grotesque and obscene aspects of medieval art in the Middle Ages. It studied several features of the medieval art and the bachtinian influence in the writings of Michael Camille on obscenities. Several studies of base and blasphemous motifs in Scandinavian medieval art were also included.