>>212548758Not true, by the way. Anyone could buy a Bible, but they were incredibly expensive as everything was hand-written back then. Nearly all the time they'd be in Latin, as everyone who could read and was wealthy spoke Latin. However, there are still plenty of examples of translation throughout that time, both partial and complete
However, the Catholic church came to think translations were liable to introduce doctrinal errors, and therefore they forbade doing so unless the Church supervised the process