[BipolarBob]

That’s pretty rich. The poor couldn’t read Latin.

[Salvation]

But they could read Hebrew and Aramaic.

[Salvation]

You also missed a word in your quote:

**There even poor students*

How do you not know that they might have been studying Latin?

[Mrs. Don-o]

It said poor "students." All students of the Medieval period wrote and read, spoke and understood Latin. It was the language of the school. It facilitated a multinational but same-language civilization of readers from Krakow to Cadiz, from Oslo to Palermo.

Thus anyone who could read, could read the Bible.

I'm not against translation, mind you. The first Bile translations into modern European languages were translated by Catholics. But in the days before movable type, a church, school or monastery could only have a few books, so this way the books you had were accessible to all nationalities, because Latin was the only truly widespread language.

It was like English is today.