Pointer, as far as there being any organized church in the middle ages other than the Catholic church, you'd be correct. However, I think you make a huge assumption that cannot be proven in that you believe the church, and more correctly the Protestant Church, did not exist in the sense that we know it now. It goes back to what Bernie said with faith being a personal matter. We cannot speak for individual and even small gatherings. Any such beliefs that didn't agree with the church were branded as heresey and many were punished in various ways and a few even burned at the stake. Obviously, there'd probably not be many records left either through them being hidden or destroyed when found. I don't believe that the church (the real church, the body of Christ), in some semblence to what I believe and we see now, didn't exist through this period. There were actually quite a few attempts at publishing vernacular Bibles and these are the known ones:
During the
Middle Ages, translation particularly of the Old Testament was discouraged. Nevertheless, there are some fragmentary [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_Bible_translations]
Old English Bible translations[/url], notably a lost translation of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John]
Gospel of John[/url] into Old English by the Venerable [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede]
Bede[/url], which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death around the year [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/735]
735[/url]. An [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_High_German]
Old High German[/url] version of the gospel of Matthew dates to [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/748]
748[/url]. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne]
Charlemagne[/url] in ca. 800 charged [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin]
Alcuin[/url] with a revision of the Latin Vulgate. The translation into [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic]
Old Church Slavonic[/url] dates to the late 9th century.[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great]
Alfred the Great[/url] had a number of passages of the Bible circulated in the vernacular in around [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/900]
900[/url]. These included passages from the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments]
Ten Commandments[/url] and the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentateuch]
Pentateuch[/url], which he prefixed to a code of laws he promulgated around this time. In approximately [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/990]
990[/url], a full and freestanding version of the four Gospels in idiomatic Old English appeared, in the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Saxon]
West Saxon[/url] dialect; these are known as the
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex]Wessex[/url] Gospels
And then:
The most notable [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_Bible_translation]
Middle English Bible translation[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyclif%27s_Bible]
Wyclif's Bible[/url] (1383), based on the Vulgate, was banned by the Oxford Synod in 1408. A Hungarian [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite]
Hussite[/url] Bible appeared in the mid 15th century, and in 1478, a Spanish translation in the dialect of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_%28autonomous_community%29]
Valencia[/url].
(Thanks, Wikipedia) A statement that the beliefs did not exist would be impossible to prove.