English Language,” G. D. Bone brings out: “Tyndale’s task was 
to make real the common life of the gospels. He was to 
rediscover the parables. . . . Before they possessed the Bible in 
their own language few people considered that a story in some 
way acquired more weight if it were actually a reflection of 
common life.” (82)

     Implied here is the suggestion that the language of 
everyday life when seen  evokes the need for a literature of 
everyday life. Print applied to vernaculars transformed them 
into mass media, which was not too strange since typography 
was the first form of mass production. But print applied to 
Latin was a disaster: “The efforts of the great Italian 
humanists, from Petrarch in his Africa  to Cardinal Bembo, had 
the unexpected effect of purifying Latin out of active 
existence.” (83)