“Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man.”
Then in the 1400s, was the Roman church just fine with the common man reading the Bible on his own?
aside from the common man not being able to read, the Church wanted, more properly, insisted that the language of the Bible was properly Latin
To keep people ignorant and under priestly control, latin was the tool of enslavement
There is a trend back to Latin today for that very reason
Hocus Pokus, Dominokus was the cure for enlightenment
“Then in the 1400s, was the Roman church just fine with the common man reading the Bible on his own?”
Obviously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Czech
“In 1487 the printing press was set up at Prague, and the following year the Czech Bible was first printed.” “Czech”, The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 5, edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines.
>> Then in the 1400s, was the Roman church just fine with the common man reading the Bible on his own? <<
Yes. That’s why there was a bible on public display in every church. Now, it’s true that these were almost all in Latin, but at the time, anyone who could read did so in Latin, not the vernacular. Vernacular writing was mostly used solely for recording verbal communication.