[Campion]

From 600 through 1582 AD, the reading of scripture in any language but Latin was forbidden. By that time, Latin had been in decline as a spoken language for over a century. For this 900-year period, the Bible was effectively closed to the common people, whether or not they could read their native language.

That's flatly untrue. In fact there were translations of the Scriptures into many languages, including English and its ancestors, long before 1582. Their possession was not "forbidden," either.

Vernacular bibles were hard to get, though, because books were expensive prior to printing and a Latin Bible would be salable to a much wider audience than any Bible in a vernacular dialect.

The reading of Scripture in the vernacular was frowned upon in England at the time of the Reformation, but England was not the whole church.

[Cronos]

The reading of Scripture in the vernacular was frowned upon in England at the time of the Reformation, but England was not the whole church.

Thank you for that