The issue focused on history and culture, in particular the evidence for a popular culture of knowledge in medieval Europe that could have translated texts by popular writers in countries other than England and France (the classical texts of the Bible were generally available in the land of Europe that had long been the center of Christian learning—see this excellent work on the New Testament, The Development of Western Studies). Thus Book of Mormon authors were not the only authors writing about literature and religion in the Middle Ages in Western Europe; the Bible itself is