b. Most copies of the Bible were in Latin, and people couldn’t read Latin anyway.
That was the problem.
Do you realize how expensive and rare books were? There was basically no point in translating into the vernacular because most people who could afford books were educated enough to read Latin anyway.
Yeah, I don’t need your history lesson. I know how illiterate people were, but surely the Bible could have been read in foreign languages. Translate the Bible into French so that French priests could read it in that language to their congregations.