ABSTRACT
Popular protest used the assumptions and language of a phenomenon, the people shall attempt to define popular culture. Some random examples may help to illustrate the broad definition of elite culture and of how it differs from popular culture. By providing random examples, the people can already begin to see some of the features of elite culture that make it different from popular culture even if they define the two cultures largely in terms of 'the arts'. Certainly, both 'popular' and 'elite' cultures were constantly re-charged from urban batteries, and in addition any offensive by elite against popular culture in early modern Europe can be seen largely as part of the conquest of the country by the city. It will be argued that religious change in that era was genuinely rooted in popular culture and that the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation were by no means simply imposed by elites on the peoples of Europe.
