%0 Journal Article
%A Linda Burke
%D 2023
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J Mediaevistik
%@ 2199-806X
%N 1
%V 35
%T Jeanette L. Patterson,  Bible historiale . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022, 249 pp., 8 b/w ill.
%R 10.3726/med.2022.01.136
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1393316
%X Were medieval lay Christians forbidden by the Catholic Church to read the Bible in their mother tongue? Were vernacular Bibles a rarity? If vernacular Bibles flourished, as they did, who were the translators, and how were the ancient books of the Bible reworked to engage the lay man or woman of a time and culture far removed from the ancient world? Where the Church authorities approved of these Bibles, what were the agendas served?