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Abstract: Researches into contemporary political discourse all over the world reveal the typical narrative of justification of war. This narrative contains three agents (HERO, VILLAIN, and VICTIM) and seems to be a universal cognitive structure framing political picture of the world in a crisis situation. This paper verifies the trinity model by researching into medieval political discourse. It is argued that the medieval gothic FairyTale of Just War is binary, as the agent of VICTIM is omitted