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When the printing press increased the demand for a personally owned Bible, Europe was flooded, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with vernacular versions in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, German, and Bohemian, each a more or less careful rendering of St Jerome’s Vulgate. Though there existed no complete English version of the Bible, preachers and writers of every type of literature quoted the Bible in the English vernacular, and in this way the greater portion of the Old and New Testaments became familiar to a broad segment of the people.
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Nugent, E.M. (1969). The Bible. In: Nugent, E.M. (eds) The Thought & Culture of the English Renaissance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2751-4_13
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