This paper offers a discussion of the ideas and conclusions reached by author Robert W. Scribner for his chapter "Elements of Popular Belief" in the book "Handbook of European History 1400-1600" as edited by Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Heiko A. Oberman, and James D. Tracy, showing the sorts of belief systems prevailing among the populace during the two centuries of this earlier period and how those systems interacted until the Reformation altered the existing world-view.
