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depends by what you mean by “fundamentalist”.

When everyone could get and read the bible, I wondered if that was when certain readers starting rejecting the teachings of official church scholarship and doctrine, and developing their own individual interpretations of scripture. I think today's fundamentalists mostly reject the entry of modernity, in all it's forms, into interpretation. You mentioned that people reading the bible was fairly recent, and I agree. I was just wondering if that is mostly when everyone started seeking their own individual understanding of the Christian Canon, or was it some other later set of events. I guess what I was asking is, when was the beginning of what lead to all the numerous denominations?