306 Dianna

The Black Plague caused cultural and social reactions which darkened and almost terminated Western Civilization. It introduced and/or aggravated almost all of the “corruptions” that the Reformation sought to “reform”. Oft times bizarre and oft times violent escatological “reform” movements started during the Plague years and extended through to centuries. Indeed the Black Death returned over and over again in Western Europe for generations to take young… Luther experienced one such devastating return of the Black Plague during his childhood.