Chapter 12, by way of Conclusion, attempt some psychological studies of the exempts authors and their personages (preaching, confession, penitence, shame, sin, etc). It seems hardly possible to penetrate directly into the mind of the public to which exempla were addressed, and the historian can study their mentality only as it was interpreted by the Church authors. Only in contradictory synthesis of the thoughts of the learned with the thoughts of the «simple» the historian has an opportunity to comprehend the mentality of the medieval people.